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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.

I have a problem wirh R: After loding fBasics packages log funtion doesn't work like as fallow: Cenap ERDEMIR Hacettepe University Turkey > log(20) [1] 2.995732 > local({pkg <- select.list(sort(.packages(all.available = TRUE))) + if(nchar(pkg)) library(pkg, character.only=TRUE)}) Loading required package: fImport Loading required package: fSeries Loading required package: robustbase

Hi R, I am trying to download the data from R. I give the below command. > library(fImport) > yahooSeries("IBM") trying URL 'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=IBM&a=7&b=08&c=2007&d=7&e=07&f=2008& g=d&x=.csv' Error in download.file(url = url, destfile = file, method = method) : cannot open URL

Dear all, I have been importing data into R from yahoo using yahooSeries, however the older version I was using no longer works with the syntax I have developed. I downloaded the latest package and it downloads data from the U.S. just fine, but the ticker codes for the Australian stock exchange (asx) do not get downloaded. a simple example, this works (US stock): stock<-yahooSeries(symbols =

Guys, I wrote to the finance mailing list earlier with my questions but was directed here. Sorry for the repeat. --------------- library(quantmod) .... now <- Sys.time() midnight <- strptime() # <---- I want to make this a static variable that will be equal to 12:00:00 am but I dont know what to put here. I keep getting NA for everything I do if(now == midnight) {

i have a time Series of IBM closing px from 1/1/2000 to today I want to graph the time serie by dividing the graph by year and month all the monthly graphs with the same year will go to one page. so from 1/1/2000 to 11/19/2010. i will have 11 pages, and each page will have 12 graphs (jan to dec) except for 2010. I am able to do it in R, but when i use sweave, I can only print the last page.

Dear Gabor, Thanks for your reply. however: > tail(DJd) ^DJI.Close 2010-04-01 10927.07 2010-04-05 10973.55 2010-04-06 10969.99 2010-04-07 10897.52 2010-04-08 10927.07 *2010-04-09 10997.35* > tail(ag) 2009-11-30 10344.84 2009-12-31 10428.05 2010-01-31 10067.33 2010-02-28 10325.26 2010-03-31 10856.63 *2010-04-30 10997.35 * It seems the script "makes up"

Hi, I am trying to install a bunch of packages via command line and can use some help in getting it right. My env is a freshly setup OpenSuse 11.4 on an amd desktop. I have not yet installed gcc (Will I need gcc to install packages? I have installed make, assuming R might need it.). I have tried it both under R2.12 and R2.13. I have a list of packages to install such as fImport, fGarch, zoo,

I was on vacation the last week and wrote some code to run a 500-day correlation between the Nasdaq tracking stock (QQQ) and 191 currency pairs for 500 days. The initial run took 9 hours(!) and I'd like to make it faster. So, I'm including my code below, in hopes that somebody will be able to figure out how to make it faster, either through parallelisation, or by making changes. I've

I was trying to dw data from Economagic [http://www.economagic.com/em-cgi/data.exe/libor/day-ussnon], using following code : library(fimport) dat2 = economagicSeries("libor/day-ussnon", frequency = "daily") Here I see that data is not complete, downloaded data starts from "2007-12-31 ", whereas actual data is available from 2001. secondly, how I convert that data

Hi there! I'm stuck with a problem aligning financial timeseries and haven't found a cue how to fix it... When I run that simple script, everything goes well until the "align"-command: ------ rm(list=ls()) x <- yahooSeries("^GDAXI") head(x) xAligned <- align(x = x, by = "1d", method = "before", include.weekends = FALSE) ------ Here's

Dear R-help, I'm trying to load the fGarch package and keep running into problems with tcltk: After succesfully instaling fGarch (and dependencies) I get: >library(fGarch) Loading required package: fBasics Loading required package: fImport Loading required package: fSeries Loading required package: robustbase Loading required package: fCalendar Loading required package: MASS Loading

Dear List, I would like to include a couple of objects in a package I am developing and I don't really get it yet. The objects should be available after package load as some functions depend on it. I tried the following: 1) Bundling all objects that I need in the file '/R/sysdata.rda' as described in the "Writing R Extensions" manual on page 7 2)

Hi, are there any good charting and analysis tools for use with currencies, stocks, etc. in R? I have some tools to download currency data from the NYFRB using python and XML. Can we get and parse an XML download using R? Can we have interaction in R plots? Does anyone use R for back-testing trading strategies? Are there any forums for discussion of using R for this specific purpose (apart

Dear sir, I am extremely sorry for messing up the logic asking for help w.r.t. my earlier mails   I have tried to explain below what I am looking for.     I have a database (say, currency_rates) storing datewise currency exchange rates with some base currency XYZ.   currency_rates <- data.frame(date = c("12/31/2010", "12/30/2010", "12/29/2010",

I am trying to extract one particular piece of data(Float) from all the data returned by yahooKeystats, but thus far I'm having no luck. This is what I've got so far: > library(fImport) Loading required package: timeSeries Loading required package: timeDate > data<-yahooKeystats("IBM") trying URL 'http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=IBM' Content type 'text/html;

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My mistake sir. I was literally engrossed in my stupid logic, and while doing so, overlooked the simple and very effective solution you had offered. Sorry once again sir and will certainly try to be very careful in future. Thanks again and have a great weekend sir. Regards Amelia --- On Fri, 7/1/11, Petr PIKAL <petr.pikal@precheza.cz> wrote: From: Petr PIKAL

Hi everyone, Following this post: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/currency-conversion-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 <-

When I try to load "fBasics" package, I get following error/warning : > library(fBasics) Loading required package: fImport Loading required package: fSeries Loading required package: fBasics Loading required package: fImport Loading required package: fSeries Loading required package: fBasics Loading required package: fImport Loading required package: fSeries Loading required package: