R help - Jan 2013 - Query on package to use for investment quotes

Hi all,

Diverging from my research based number crunching I am interested to see 
what, if any R packages are out there that can access daily market 
values of investment funds (e.g. using 
http://quote.morningstar.com/fund/f.aspx?t=PDMIX) then store the data 
value (i.e. NAV =$11.56 ) with date retrieved so these can be plotted 
with ggplot2 on some regular basis.

A web search turned up a confusing and complex array of R prediction 
models etc. but I am looking for plain vanilla way to retrieve fund 
values and store the values.

Thanks,

Bruce

-- 
Bruce W. Miller, Ph.D.
Conservation Ecologist
Neotropical Bat Projects


office details
11384 Alpine Road
Stanwood, Mi. 49346
Phone (231) 679-6059

I'd look into the quantmod package.

Cheers,
MW

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Bruce Miller <batsncats at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Diverging from my research based number crunching I am interested to see
> what, if any R packages are out there that can access daily market values
of
> investment funds (e.g. using
> http://quote.morningstar.com/fund/f.aspx?t=PDMIX) then store the data value
> (i.e. NAV =$11.56 ) with date retrieved so these can be plotted with
ggplot2
> on some regular basis.
>
> A web search turned up a confusing and complex array of R prediction models
> etc. but I am looking for plain vanilla way to retrieve fund values and
> store the values.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bruce
>
> --
> Bruce W. Miller, Ph.D.
> Conservation Ecologist
> Neotropical Bat Projects
>
>
> office details
> 11384 Alpine Road
> Stanwood, Mi. 49346
> Phone (231) 679-6059
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

Bruce,
  Have you looked at the Edgar database here: http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml

You should be able to get daily mutual fund quotes.

KW

--


	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]