edgar: An R package for the U.S. SEC EDGAR retrieval and parsing of corporate filings

This paper introduces the R package edgar to download and analyze Securities Exchange Commission’s (SEC) mandatory public disclosures in United States. Corporations U.S. submit their periodic reports, registration statements, financial reports electronically SEC. The SEC makes these publicly accessible everyone through Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, Retrieval System (EDGAR). As reporting is one of most crucial aspects system, efficient retrieval EDGAR filings becomes imperative for analysts researchers. We summarize implementation that facilitates downloading, parsing, searching, sentiment analysis corporate reports.