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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! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-download-Yahoo-Quote-tp3769563p3769563.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Hello all: As everyone knows the stock quotes in Yahoo can be downloaded directly on EXCEL spreadsheet. we can also use the simple sentence of package tseries of R to download Yahoo quote: x <- get.hist.quote(instrument = "ibm", start = "2010-01-01", quote = "close") x The result will display on the R console.