Use the given code below to answer the questions.
Hint: Insert a new code chunk below and type in the code, using the tq_get() function above. Replace the ticker symbol for Walmart. You may find the ticker symbol for Microsoft from Yahoo Finance.
## # A tibble: 1,029 x 7
## date open high low close volume adjusted
## <date> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 2016-01-04 60.5 61.5 60.4 61.5 11989200 55.7
## 2 2016-01-05 62.0 63.0 61.8 62.9 13326000 57.1
## 3 2016-01-06 62.5 64.0 62.5 63.5 16564600 57.6
## 4 2016-01-07 63.0 65.2 62.9 65.0 26430000 59.0
## 5 2016-01-08 65.1 65.4 63.4 63.5 17767900 57.6
## 6 2016-01-11 63.8 64.5 63.6 64.2 12653800 58.2
## 7 2016-01-12 64.4 64.7 63.4 63.6 12195900 57.7
## 8 2016-01-13 63.7 63.7 61.8 61.9 13725700 56.2
## 9 2016-01-14 62 63.6 61.8 63.1 12934900 57.2
## 10 2016-01-15 61.5 62.5 61.3 61.9 15174400 56.2
## # … with 1,019 more rows
There are 7 columns
On January 5th 2016, Walmrt stock prices opened at 62 and closed at 61.50. The high was 63 and the low was 61.8. It seems there was fluctuation during the day, but not much.
Hint: Watch the video, “Basic Data Types”, in DataCamp: Introduction to R for Finance: Ch1 The Basics. There are three basic data types. They are numeric, character, and logical. Numeric data is numbers. Chaacters can be company names or if you put numbers in quotation marks they can be character data too. Logical data is true or false.
Hint: Insert a new code chunk below and type in the code, using the ggplot() function above. Revise the code so that it maps adjusted to the y-axis, instead of close.
For more information on the ggplot() function, refer to Ch2 Introduction to ggplot2 in one of our e-textbooks, Data Visualization with R.
At the beginning at 2019 the Walmart stock price was below 150 and then they ended the year at 300. So during 2019, Walmart doubled their stock prices.
Hint: Use message, echo and results in the chunk options. Refer to the RMarkdown Reference Guide.
Hint: Use eval in the chunk option. Refer to the RMarkdown Reference Guide.