Download Data Sets from Kenneth's French Finance Data Library Site

Download data sets from Kenneth's French finance data library site < http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/ken.french/data_library.html>, reads all the data subsets from the file. Allows R users to collect the data as 'tidyverse'-ready data frames.

frenchdata

The goal of frenchdata is to provide functions to download and read data sets from Prof. Kenneth French finance data library.

Installation

Once on CRAN, install the package as usual:

install.packages("frenchdata")

You can install the development version of frenchdata directly from GitHub using:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("nareal/frenchdata")

Usage

To learn more about this package and the functions it provides, please visit the package documentation at https://nareal.github.io/frenchdata/.

Getting help

If you encounter a bug, please file an issue with a minimal reproducible example on GitHub.