edgar (version 2.0.1)

searchFilings: Search EDGAR filings for specific words

Description

searchFilings Search EDGAR filings for specific words

Usage

searchFilings(cik.no, form.type, filing.year, word.list)

Arguments

cik.no

vector of CIK number of firms in integer format. Suppress leading zeroes from CIKs. Keep cik.no = 'ALL' if needs to download for all CIK's.

form.type

character vector containing form type to be downloaded. form.type = 'ALL' if need to download all forms.

filing.year

vector of four digit numeric year

word.list

vector of words to search in the filing

Value

Function returns dataframe containing filing information, size of the filing, and the number of word hits based on the input phrases. Following are the definitions of some important variables:

file.size = Total number of words in the filing. It does not consider stop words. nword.hits = Number of total hits found in the filing based on the search word list.

Details

searchFilings function takes search word vector, CIK(s), form type(s), and year(s) as input parameters. The function first imports available downloaded filings in local woking directory 'Edgar filings' created by getFilings function; otherwise, it downloads the filings which is not already been downloaded. It then reads the filings, cleans the filings, and search for the input words. The function returns a dataframe with filing information, size of the filing, and the number of word hits.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
word.list = c('derivative','hedging','currency forwards','currency futures')
output <- searchFilings(cik.no = c('1000180', '38079'), 
                     form.type = c("10-K", "10-K405","10KSB", "10KSB40"), 
                     filing.year = c(2005, 2006), word.list) 
# }