List available datasets on Kenneth French's website

FFlist scrapes Kenneth French's data library and returns a data frame (or tibble) of available datasets with their names and download URLs. This replaces the listsave workaround in FFdownload and makes the dataset inventory directly usable with dplyr::filter() or View().

Usage

FFlist(exclude_daily = TRUE)

Arguments

exclude_daily: logical. If TRUE (default), daily datasets are excluded from the returned list.

Value

A data frame (or tibble if the tibble package is available) with columns:

name: Dataset name, as used in inputlist and as key in the FFdata list (without the leading x_ prefix and without the _CSV.zip suffix).
file_url: Full HTTPS URL of the zip file.
is_daily: Logical flag indicating whether the dataset contains daily data. Only present when exclude_daily = FALSE.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Browse all available monthly/annual datasets
fl <- FFlist()
head(fl, 10)

# Include daily datasets
FFlist(exclude_daily = FALSE)

# Filter with dplyr
library(dplyr)
FFlist() |> filter(grepl("Momentum", name))
} # }