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get SEC CIK number from ticker symbol
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| getCIK = function(ticker) { | |
| stopifnot(is.character(ticker)) | |
| uri = "http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar" | |
| response = getForm(uri,CIK=ticker,action="getcompany") | |
| html = htmlParse(response) | |
| CIKNode = getNodeSet(html, "//acronym[@title=\"Central Index Key\"][text() = \"CIK\"]") | |
| CIKNodeText = sapply(CIKNode, function(x) xmlValue(getSibling(getSibling(x)))) | |
| CIK = sub(" .*","",CIKNodeText) | |
| CIK = sub("^0*","",CIK) | |
| CIK | |
| } | |
| getCIK("AAPL") |
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