Depending on the value of ‘returnAs’, either a
‘data.frame’ or ‘data.table’ object also containing
non-numerical information such as condition codes, or a time-indexed
container of type ‘xts’ and ‘zoo’ with
a numeric matrix containing only ‘value’ and ‘size’.
Arguments
security
A character variable describing a valid security ticker
eventType
A character variable describing an event, default
is ‘TRADE’.
startTime
A Datetime object with the start time, defaults
to one hour before current time
endTime
A Datetime object with the end time, defaults
to current time
verbose
A boolean indicating whether verbose operation is
desired, defaults to ‘FALSE’
returnAs
A character variable describing the type of return
object; currently supported are ‘data.frame’ (also the default),
‘data.table’, ‘xts’ and ‘zoo’
tz
A character variable with the desired local timezone,
defaulting to the value ‘TZ’ environment variable, and
‘UTC’ if unset
con
A connection object as created by a blpConnect
call, and retrieved via the internal function
defaultConnection.