[R] Download stock prices

[Martin Maechler]

Hi Matthew,

>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Keller <mckellercran at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Sun, 4 Feb 2007 23:06:46 -0500 writes:

    Matthew> Hi Mihai, You might check out the Rmetrics bundle,
    Matthew> available on the cran website. I've used its
    Matthew> fBasics library

it's the fBasics *package*; a library is something (actually
more than one thing!) different!

    Matthew> to download stock prices. Try the
    Matthew> yahooImport() function and the keystats() function
    Matthew> for downloading specific stock prices. I had to
    Matthew> fiddle with the keystats function to get it to work
    Matthew> properly, but I wrote to the writer of the library

you mean the maintainer of the *package* 

    Matthew> and it may have been fixed by now.

the function is (now) called  keystatsImport() and is part of
'fCalendar' -- which is automatically required from package
'fBasics'.
help(keystatsImport) contains several examples, unfortunately
explicitly not available through example(), but I can
successfully execute all of them -- and they do work, including
the yahooImport() one.

Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich

    Matthew> Best of luck,

    Matthew> Matt

    Matthew> On 2/4/07, Mihai Nica <mihainica at yahoo.com> wrote:
    >> gReetings:
    >> 
    >> Is there any way to download a (or a sample of a)
    >> crossection of stock market prices? Or is it possible to
    >> use get.hist.quote with a *wild card*?
    >> 
    >> Thanks,
    >> 
    >> mihai
    >> 
    >> Mihai Nica 170 East Griffith St. G5 Jackson, MS 39201
    >> 601-914-0361


    Matthew> -- Matthew C Keller Postdoctoral Fellow Virginia
    Matthew> Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics