Quiz on Intro to tidyquant

Q1. How many columns (variables) are there?

There are 7 variables (columns).

Q2. What are the variables?

The variables are date, open, low, high, close, volume, and adjusted.

Q3. Add Microsoft stock prices, in addition to Apple.

## # A tibble: 1,562 x 8
##    symbol date        open  high   low close   volume adjusted
##    <chr>  <date>     <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>    <dbl>    <dbl>
##  1 AAPL   2016-01-04 103.  105.  102   105.  67649400     99.5
##  2 AAPL   2016-01-05 106.  106.  102.  103.  55791000     97.0
##  3 AAPL   2016-01-06 101.  102.   99.9 101.  68457400     95.1
##  4 AAPL   2016-01-07  98.7 100.   96.4  96.4 81094400     91.1
##  5 AAPL   2016-01-08  98.6  99.1  96.8  97.0 70798000     91.6
##  6 AAPL   2016-01-11  99.0  99.1  97.3  98.5 49739400     93.1
##  7 AAPL   2016-01-12 101.  101.   98.8 100.0 49154200     94.4
##  8 AAPL   2016-01-13 100.  101.   97.3  97.4 62439600     92.0
##  9 AAPL   2016-01-14  98.0 100.   95.7  99.5 63170100     94.0
## 10 AAPL   2016-01-15  96.2  97.7  95.4  97.1 79010000     91.7
## # ... with 1,552 more rows

Q4. How many variables are there now? Any new variable?

There are 8 variables now, the new variable is symbol.

Q5. On how many days either of the two stocks closed higher than $200 per share?

Hint: Use dplyr::filter. 72 days

## # A tibble: 72 x 8
##    symbol date        open  high   low close   volume adjusted
##    <chr>  <date>     <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>    <dbl>    <dbl>
##  1 AAPL   2018-08-01  199.  202.  197.  202. 67935700     199.
##  2 AAPL   2018-08-02  201.  208.  200.  207. 62404000     205.
##  3 AAPL   2018-08-03  207.  209.  205.  208. 33447400     206.
##  4 AAPL   2018-08-06  208   209.  207.  209. 25425400     207.
##  5 AAPL   2018-08-07  209.  210.  207.  207. 25587400     205.
##  6 AAPL   2018-08-08  206.  208.  205.  207. 22525500     205.
##  7 AAPL   2018-08-09  207.  210.  207.  209. 23469200     207.
##  8 AAPL   2018-08-10  207.  209.  207.  208. 24611200     206.
##  9 AAPL   2018-08-13  208.  211.  208.  209. 25869100     207.
## 10 AAPL   2018-08-14  210.  211.  208.  210. 20748000     208.
## # ... with 62 more rows

Q6. On how many days Apple stock closed higher than $200 per share?

Hint: Use dplyr::filter. 72 days

## # A tibble: 72 x 8
##    symbol date        open  high   low close   volume adjusted
##    <chr>  <date>     <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>    <dbl>    <dbl>
##  1 AAPL   2018-08-01  199.  202.  197.  202. 67935700     199.
##  2 AAPL   2018-08-02  201.  208.  200.  207. 62404000     205.
##  3 AAPL   2018-08-03  207.  209.  205.  208. 33447400     206.
##  4 AAPL   2018-08-06  208   209.  207.  209. 25425400     207.
##  5 AAPL   2018-08-07  209.  210.  207.  207. 25587400     205.
##  6 AAPL   2018-08-08  206.  208.  205.  207. 22525500     205.
##  7 AAPL   2018-08-09  207.  210.  207.  209. 23469200     207.
##  8 AAPL   2018-08-10  207.  209.  207.  208. 24611200     206.
##  9 AAPL   2018-08-13  208.  211.  208.  209. 25869100     207.
## 10 AAPL   2018-08-14  210.  211.  208.  210. 20748000     208.
## # ... with 62 more rows

Q7. Create a new variable, MC, market capitalization.

Hint: Use dplyr::mutate. Market cap is given by the formula, MC = N × P, where MC is the market capitalization, N is the number of shares outstanding, and P is the closing price per share.

Q8. Keep only three variables symbol, date, close and market capitalization and drop the other variables.

Hint: Use dplyr::select.

Q9 Plot daily closing stock prices for both stocks by mapping symbol to color.

Hint: Use ggplot2::ggplot.