tidyfinance 0.4.4
Bug fixes
- Removed user agent sampling from
download_stock_prices()because they were blocked. 
tidyfinance 0.4.3.
Bug fixes
download_constituents() and
download_stock_prices() now also fail gracefully with
informative messages instead of errors or warnings. 
download_factors() returns empty data frame with
date column to ensure vignettes are built even if resources
are unavailable. 
Improvements
- Unified 
start_date and end_date validation
across applications. 
- Updated tests of 
download_*() functions to cover
unavailable or broken resources. 
tidyfinance 0.4.2
New features
- Added experimental 
add_lag_columns() function that is
more efficient than lag_column() 
Bug fixes
download_macro_predictors(),
download_factors(), and download_osap() now
fail gracefully with informative messages instead of errors or
warnings. 
Improvements
- Updated 
ccmxpf_linktable to the new WRDS default
ccmxpf_lnkhist. 
- Added support for “factors_q5_annual” in
download_factors_q() 
- Optimized 
winsorize() by reducing quantile
recalculations 
tidyfinance 0.4.1
Bug fixes
- Added missing support of “wrds_trace_enhanced” and “wrds_fisd”
support to 
download_data_wrds(). 
- Added intercept to 
estimate_model(),
estimate_betas(), and
estimate_fama_macbeth(). 
Improvements
- Renamed 
download_data_wrds_clean_trace() to
download_data_wrds_trace_enhanced() for improved
consistency. 
- Added 
vcov_options parameter to
estimate_fama_macbeth(). 
tidyfinance 0.4.0
New features
- Added 
list_supported_indexes() and
download_data_constituents() to download index
constituents. 
- Added 
estimate_betas() to estimate risk factor
betas. 
- Added 
estimate_fama_macbeth() to estimate Fama-MacBeth
models. 
- Added 
download_data_constituents() to download index
constituents. 
- Added 
download_data_osap() to download data from Open
Source Asset Pricing. 
- Added 
download_data_fred() to download data from
Federal Reserve Economic Data. 
- Added 
compute_portfolio_returns() to implement
different portfolio sorting approaches. 
- Added 
compute_long_short_returns() to quickly compute
long-short portfolio returns. 
- Added 
compute_breakpoints() to make
assign_portfolio() more flexible. 
- Added 
breakpoint_options() and
data_options() to provide more flexibility with respect to
column names. 
Bug fixes
- Retained explicit missing values in 
mktcap_lag in
monthly CRSP. 
Improvements
- Migrated to 
cli for error messages and warnings. 
- Aligned documentation across functions.
 
- Switched to 
NULL for optional default values. 
- Removed dependency from named placeholder that is only available
from R 4.2 on.
 
- Removed 
readxl dependency from
download_data_macro_predictors(). 
- Removed redundant 
check_if_package_installed()
function. 
- Updated 
estimate_model() to support both
estimate_betas() and
estimate_fama_macbeth(). 
- Updated 
assign_portfolio() to support
compute_portfolio_returns(). 
- Renamed 
download_data_stocks() to
download_data_stock_prices() for better naming. 
tidyfinance 0.3.0
New features
- Added support for all available Fama-French datasets (check via
list_supported_types()). All type names are created from a
string cleaning algorithm and are hence more consistent. We kept
implicit support for legacy type names to avoid breaking existing
code. 
- Added new function to download stock data from Yahoo Finance:
download_data_stocks(). 
- Added support for 
wrds_compustat_quarterly. 
Bug fixes
- CRSP monthly data always contains the historically accurate stock
characteristics instead of the oft misleading most recent
information.
 
- Consistently implemented the 
additional_columns option
for CRSP and Compustat instead of having the error prone option to pass
columns via .... 
- Added replacement of 
-999 by NA in Fama-French types,
which was missing in the initial implementation. 
Improvements
- Refactored the column name cleaning procedure in
download_data_factors() to support all available column
names in the Fama-French universe. 
- Made all 
start_date and end_date optional
with a message to user which dates are used as defaults. 
- Introduced automatic checks via GitHub Actions workflows.
 
- Synchronized 
date column and its references across WRDS
types (see corresponding vignette for more information). 
- Improved handling of imports with 
tidyfinance-package.R
file. 
- Reformatted DESCRIPTION and roxygen comments for more consistency
with 
tidyverse style. 
tidyfinance 0.2.1
New features
- Added 
domain and as_vector parameters to
list_supported_types() 
Bug fixes
- Replaced 
... with additional_columns
parameter and ensured that CRSP and Compustat types consider it
correctly 
- Removed 
mkt_excess column from type
“wrds_crsp_monthly” 
Improvements
- Added 
fixed = TRUE to grepl() calls with
fixed strings 
- Switched to 
NA_real_ instead of
as.double(NA) 
- Switched to 
toString() instead of paste0()
with collapse 
- Switched to 
dplyr::between() instead of unequal
signs 
tidyfinance 0.2.0
New features
- Added 
vignettes/using-tidyfinance 
- Added 
set_wrds_credentials() function for a guided tour
to store login data 
- Added support for 
"factors_ff_industry_*" data
types 
Bug fixes
- Removed 
hml and smb columns from
"wrds_crsp_monthly" output 
- Fixed stock filters for 
"v2" of
"wrds_crsp_*" data types 
Improvements
- Relaxed package version requirements as much as possible with the
current set of packages
 
- Split up the 
download_data* functions into multiple
files for better maintenance 
tidyfinance 0.1.0