GetHFData (version 1.7)

ghfd_get_available_tickers_from_ftp: Function to get available tickers from ftp

Description

This function will read the Bovespa ftp for a given market/date and output a numeric vector where the names of the elements represents the different tickers and the numeric values as the number of trades for each ticker

Usage

ghfd_get_available_tickers_from_ftp(my.date = "2015-11-03",
  type.market = "equity", type.data = "trades", dl.dir = "ftp files",
  max.dl.tries = 10)

Arguments

my.date

A single date to check tickers in ftp (e.g. '2015-11-03')

type.market

The type of market to download data from ('equity', 'equity-odds','options', 'BMF' ).

type.data

The type of financial data to download and aggregate ('trades' or 'orders').

dl.dir

The folder to download the zip files (default = 'ftp files')

max.dl.tries

Maximum attempts to download the files from ftp

Value

A data.frame with the tickers, number of found trades and file name

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# }
# NOT RUN {
 df.tickers <- ghfd_get_available_tickers_from_ftp(my.date = '2015-11-03',
 type.market = 'BMF')

 print(head(df.tickers))
# }