Package 'pacta.data.scraping'

Get currency exchange rates for a given quarter from the IMF API

Description

Get currency exchange rates for a given quarter from the IMF API

Usage

get_currency_exchange_rates(quarter, max_seconds = 60L)

Arguments

quarter	A single string containing the desired quarter of data in the form "2022-Q4".
max_seconds	A single numeric containing the max number of seconds it should wait for a response

Value

A dataframe containing columns currency and exchange_rate

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Get the definition of MSCI regions (in terms of member countries)

Description

Get the definition of MSCI regions (in terms of member countries)

Usage

get_index_regions()

Value

A dataframe containing columns equity_market, country, and country_iso

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Scrape index data from the iShares website

Description

This function will scrape and process holdings data from the iShares website.

Usage

get_ishares_index_data(url, name, as_of_date)

Arguments

url	A string containing the url of the desired iShares index data.
name	A string containing the name of the index.
as_of_date	A string indicating the desired date, by year, month and date, "YYYYMMDD" (e.g. "20201231"). Data will be scraped for date specified.

Value

A data.frame, containing the un-processed iShares data.

Examples

## Not run: 
url <-
  paste0(
    "https://www.ishares.com/uk/individual/en/products/",
    "251813/ishares-global-corporate-bond-ucits-etf/"
  )
name <- "iShares Global Corporate Bond UCITS ETF <USD (Distributing)>"
as_of_date <- "20211231"

get_ishares_index_data(url, name, as_of_date)

## End(Not run)

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Process raw iShares data into PACTA readable format

Description

Process raw iShares data into PACTA readable format

Usage

process_ishares_index_data(data)

Arguments

data	An iShares index dataset, like the output of get_ishares_index_data().

Value

A processed dataset, formatted for input into pacta.portfolio.analysis.

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