R package, MIT-licensed, v0.1.0. Pulls and merges data from WRDS databases — Compustat, CRSP, ExecuComp, BoardEx, ISS, RavenPack, MSCI/KLD — with validation tools, identifier standardization, and configuration-driven pipelines.
Most empirical finance and management papers carry the same invisible footnote — a researcher clicked through a web UI to extract data, lost the provenance, and never quite reproduced the result. The cost compounds across teams. The same WRDS join gets rebuilt for every paper with different subtle bugs each time.
Formal R package structure — DESCRIPTION, NAMESPACE, R/ source, man/ docs (28 entries), tests/testthat/. The package surfaces typed pull functions for each WRDS database, an identifier-standardization layer that handles cross-source merges (GVKEY ↔ PERMNO ↔ TICKER ↔ CIK), and a configuration-driven pipeline runner. Predecessor SmartTool is cited in a Journal of Management invited editorial (2023) on code and data sharing.