dow30 {nutshell}R Documentation

Dow 30 Stock Quotes This data frame contains stock quotes for all 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average between September 22, 2008 and September 21, 2009.

Description

Dow 30 Stock Quotes

Usage

data(dow30)

Format

A data frame with 7482 observations on the following 8 variables.

symbol
A factor representing the date for each quote
Date
Date on which the quote was taken
Open
A numeric vector representing the opening price for each stock on each day
High
A numeric vector representing the high price for each stock on each day
Low
A numeric vector representing the low price for each stock on each day
Close
A numeric vector representing the closing price for each stock on each day
Volume
A numeric vector representing the number of shares traded for each stock on each day
Adj.Close
A numeric vector representing the closing price for each stock on each day

Details

This data set is used as an example in the book "R in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly Media.

Source

The data in this data frame was obtained from Yahoo! Finance, http://finance.yahoo.com/.

Examples

data(dow30)
summary(dow30)

[Package nutshell version 1.0 Index]