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> get.hist.quote(instrument="INR/USD", provider="oanda", start="2005-10-20") trying URL 'http://www.oanda.com/convert/fxhistory?lang=en&date1=10%2F20%2F2005&date=11%2F01%2F2005&date_fmt=us&exch=INR&exch2=&expr=USD&expr2=&margin_fixed=0&&SUBMIT=Get+Table&format=ASCII&redirected=1' Content type 'text/html' length unknown opened URL .......... ... downloaded 13Kb 2005-10-20 2005-10-21 2005-10-22 2005-10-23 2005-10-24 2005-10-25 2005-10-26 0.02220 0.02218 0.02224 0.02224 0.02224 0.0...

...function-tt906056.html#a906061 I was trying to run the code: foo <- function(from, to, date){ url <- " http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic?script=..%2Fconvert%2Fclassic&language=en&value=1 " params <- sprintf("%s&date=%s&exch=%s&exch2=&margin_fixed=0&expr=%s&expr2=&SUBMIT=Convert+Now&lang=en&date_fmt=us", url, format(as.Date(date), "%m/%d/%y"), from, to) Lines <- readLines(params) value <- gsub(".*([0-9]\\.+[0-9]+).*", "\\1", grep("nl", grep(from, grep(to...

Dear all Is there any R function that would perform currency conversion using up-to-date exchange rates? I would be looking for a function that allows to download recent exchange rates (say, from Yahoo!) and then use these in converting currencies (say, USD to EUR). I am not sure whether r-sig-finance would be more appropriate, but the (off-)topic feels general enough to me. Thank you Liviu --