sp500 {plus} | R Documentation

## sp500

### Description

The `sp500` datafile contains a year's worth of close-of-day data for most of the Standard and Poors 500 stocks. The data is in reverse chronological order, with the top row being Dec 31st, 2008.

### Usage

    sp500

### Format

This data file contains the following items:

sp500.2008
  The raw close-of-day data. The first column is of the DJIA index, the second is the S&P 500 index, the rest are individual labeled stocks.
sp500.diff
  The daily difference.
sp500.percent
  The daily percentage change.

### Details

The goal can be to estimate either index using the individual stocks.

### Source

This database was generated using data available http://finance.yahoo.com .

[Package plus version 0.8 Index]