Prompt 'Yes' every time to getFilings

Question

I am going to download the 2005 10-Ks for several corporations in R using the EDGAR package. I have a mini loop to test which is working:

for (CIK in c(78901         


        

Answer 1

Please remember to include a minimal reproducible example in your question, including library(...) and all other necessary commands:

library(edgar)
report <- getMasterIndex(2005)

We can bypass the prompt by doing some code surgery. Here, we retrieve the code for getFilings, and replace the line that asks for the prompt with just a message. We then write the new function (my_getFilings) to a temporary file, and source that file:

x <- capture.output(dput(edgar::getFilings))
x <- gsub("choice <- .*", "cat(paste(msg3, '\n')); choice <- 'yes'", x)
x <- gsub("^function", "my_getFilings <- function", x)
writeLines(x, con = tmp <- tempfile())
source(tmp)

Everything downloads fine:

for (CIK in c(789019, 777676, 849399)){
  my_getFilings(2005, CIK, '10-K')
}
list.files(file.path(getwd(), "Edgar filings"))
# [1] "777676_10-K_2005" "789019_10-K_2005" "849399_10-K_2005"