Retrieves equity historical book data from Bloomberg.

Retrieves equity historical book data from Bloomberg. Books include 'key stats', 'income statement', 'balance sheet', 'cash flow statement' and 'ratios'.

BBG_equity_book(book, tickers, start, end, verbose = T, ...)

Arguments

book	a scalar chatacter vector, 'key stats', 'income statement', 'balance sheet', 'cash flow statement' or 'ratios'.
tickers	a chatacter vector. Specifies the Bloomberg equity tickers to query data for.
start	a scalar character vector. Specifies the starting date for the query in the following format: 'yyyy-mm-dd'.
end	a scalar character vector. Specifies the end date for the query in the following format: 'yyyy-mm-dd'.
verbose	a logical scalar vector. Should progression messages be printed? Defaults to TRUE.
...	optional parameters to pass to the bdh function from the Rblpapi package used for the query (options parameter).

Value

An S4 object of class EquityKS (book = 'key stats'), EquityIS (book = 'income statement'), \linkS4classEquityBS (book = 'balance sheet'), EquityCF (book = 'cash flow statement'), EquityRatios (book = 'ratios').

See also

• The fields dataset in the BBGsymbols package (finRes suite) for details on the Bloomnerg fields used here.

• Helper datasets in the fewISOs and GICS packages (finRes suite).

Examples

if (FALSE) {

    BBG_KS <- BBG_equity_books(book = 'key stats',
      tickers = c("BP/ LN Equity", "WEIR LN Equity"),
      start = "2000-01-01", end = as.character(Sys.Date()))

    BBG_PL<- BBG_equity_books(book = 'income statement',
      tickers = c("BP/ LN Equity", "WEIR LN Equity"),
      start = "2000-01-01", end = as.character(Sys.Date()))

    BBG_BS <- BBG_equity_books(book = 'balance sheet',
      tickers = c("BP/ LN Equity", "WEIR LN Equity"),
      start = "2000-01-01", end = as.character(Sys.Date()))

    BBG_CF <- BBG_equity_books(book = 'cash flow statement',
      tickers = c("BP/ LN Equity", "WEIR LN Equity"),
      start = "2000-01-01", end = as.character(Sys.Date()))

    BBG_R <- BBG_equity_books(book = 'ratios',
      tickers = c("BP/ LN Equity", "WEIR LN Equity"),
      start = "2000-01-01", end = as.character(Sys.Date()))

  }