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Hi, I have been learning the quantmod package over the last several days. I went to check some of my data pulls against other sources and was surprised to find that a few tickers that have single characters do not successfully scrape from Google Finance using getFin(). Particularly require(quantmod) getFin("A") getFin("E") getFin("F") getFin("G") getFin("M") all result in a file not found error. I show the last one below. > getFin("M") Error in download.file(paste(google.fin, Symbol, sep = &qu...

...ing to make the adjustment programmatic. Unfortunately, I am having a huge amount of trouble using attr in combination with paste (and perhaps get, and perhaps assign, none of which seem to help). When I hard-code the change it works fine. Your help would be much appreciated. require(quantmod) getFin("NYSE:A") attr(NYSE.A.f,"symbol")<-"A" #works fine ticker<-"A" attr(paste("NYSE.",ticker,".f",sep=""),"symbol")<-"A" #doesn't work attr(get(paste("NYSE.",ticker,".f"...

...ew object to be a complete copy of the old object when I use paste in both sides of the assign? Your help would be most appreciated. --John Sparks > #Careful! Removes everything in working directory! > rm(list = ls()) > > ticker<-"F" > > require(quantmod) > > getFin(paste("NYSE:",ticker,sep="")) [1] "NYSE.F.f" > NYSE.F.f Financial Statement for NYSE:F Retrieved from google at 2011-04-12 20:03:20 Use "viewFinancials" or "viewFin" to view > > F.f<-NYSE.F.f > F.f Financial Statement for NYSE:F Retri...

Hi R, I am familiar with the basics of R. To learn more I would like how to get data from Yahoo!finance directly into R. So basically I want a data frame or matrix to do some data analysis. How do I do this? Thank you very much. Thomas -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/yahoo-finance-into-R-tp19385481p19385481.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Dear All, I'm new at R, but I really just need a couple of things. The first thing I need is to figure out how to get each individual financial statement (CF,BS,IS). I need each individual one because getting them all at once allows for formatting issues once it is a CSV. The date subsetting is what I need because I will be running a statistical model in excel. I know I could probably