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Scripted WRDS Access

This session will show you how to programatically obtain data from WRDS using Python or R.

In this session, we’ll cover:

• (1) Setting up your access credentials

• (2) Exploring Databases and Tables

• (3) Running a Sample Project

Access Options

Access Options

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) offers a multitude of ways to access the datasets they host, such as:

• Web Query Forms through the Online Platform

• WRDS SAS Studio

• WRDS R Studio

• WRDS JupyterHub

• The WRDS Cloud

• Various package libraries that allow you to connect to WRDS from your computer

To seamlessly integrate your WRDS queries into your research workflow, you can access the WRDS API from Python with the wrds package, or from R with the RPostgres library.

Both of these tool will enable you to connect to WRDS anywhere including KLC or your own computer.

WRDS Workflow

WRDS Workflow

Since different instutions have different licensing rights to WRDS datasets, and the actual datasets are updated constantly, we highly recommend saving a version of the dataset you use for your records.