R help - Oct 2009 - packages to download from yahoo finance

Hi

I am a new R user, so if this question has been raised and answered before,
perhaps you can point me that way.

I was looking for some package/scripts that can download financial data from
yahoo finance (or some other) website. I did check
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ but failed to find something like this.
However, I am confident this problem has already been solved!

Thanks a lot.
Dinesh

On 10 October 2009 at 14:39, dinesh.somani at gatech.edu wrote:
| Hi
| 
| I am a new R user, so if this question has been raised and answered before,
perhaps you can point me that way.
| 
| I was looking for some package/scripts that can download financial data from
yahoo finance (or some other) website. I did check
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ but failed to find something like this.
However, I am confident this problem has already been solved!

Yes, several times. Please see the Task View for (Empirical) Finance at
http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Finance.html for some leads.  

It really shouldn't be too hard to answer this question, and you will need
to
get into the habit of finding answers to common problems using the available
resources. 

Lastly, consider subscribing to r-sig-finance which is more topical that r-help.

Dirk

-- 
Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.