R help - Aug 2011 - How download Yahoo Quote?

Hello all:

    Friend told me that we can download the stock historical quote from
Yahoo site by R!
Could you tell me that is true or not, how to do that?  

    Thanks!

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library(quantmod)
getSymbols("IBM")

Michael

On Aug 25, 2011, at 6:20 PM, Yumin <zpxykm at gmail.com> wrote:
>    Hello all:
> 
>    Friend told me that we can download the stock historical quote from
> Yahoo site by R!
> Could you tell me that is true or not, how to do that?  
> 
>    Thanks!
> 
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