similar to: Yahoo finance kind of application

Hi R users,   Thanks in advance.   I am using R 2.12.0 on Windows XP.   May I request you to assist me in the following please.   1. I am getting error while downloading quote data from yahoo finance.   The example code is below (taken from tseries help):   library(tseries)   con <- url("http://quote.yahoo.com") if(!inherits(try(open(con), silent = TRUE), "try-error")) {  

Dear expeRts, I would like to download a time series of historical data from the ticker with symbol "ROG.VX". Interestingly, I obtain constant values (138.3 for each day in the chosen period) although the yahoo.finance website tells me that the time series is not at all constant. What's wrong? Cheers, Marius require(tseries) hq <- get.hist.quote(instrument="ROG.VX",

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 asked the question in Rmetrics subforum, but for some reason, almost two weeks later, it keeps saying I haven't been approved to post yet there. I'll try again here on the open forum. I wanted to have a script that tabulates results by trade. I.e. instead of tabulating each day as a trade event, you enter on one date, exit another, and simply tabulate metrics based on one trade period.

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.

Hello, I was wondering if it is possible to create a live data feed from Yahoo Finance stock data into an R program? Do any such modules already exist? Thanks for any help. Szymon [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi R users, I have a problem in downloading Yahoo Finance data from R. I have tried an example given in R, to download. The error is given below: >library(fCalendar) > yahooImport("s=IBM&a=11&b=1&c=1999&d=0&q=31&f=2000&z=IBM&x=.csv ", file = "D:\\ Downlaod",source = "http://ichart.yahoo.com/table.csv?", save = FALSE,

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16206 Summary: Charts in Yahoo Finance crash swfdec Product: swfdec Version: git Platform: Other URL: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5EDJI#symbol=%5EDJI; range=1d OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: critical Priority: medium

Hi all, Please recommend good books for the following three categories. (I am aim at finance, macroeconomics, trading and business applications). (1) statistical (financial) data analysis; (2) time series; (3) econometrics. More specifically, I am looking for the following two types of books: (1) Books that provide big pictures and intuitions and books that connect dots... For example, there

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R/Finance 2009: Applied Finance with R April 24 & 25, Chicago, IL, US The first annual R/Finance conference for applied finance using R , the premier free software system for statistical computation and graphics, will be held this spring in Chicago, IL, USA on Friday April 24 and Saturday April 25. The two-day conference will cover topics as diverse as portfolio theory,

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Call for Papers The Finance Department of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), the International Center for Futures and Derivatives at UIC, and members of the R finance community are pleased to announce R/Finance 2009: Applied Finance with R on April 24 and 25, 2009, in Chicago, IL, USA Confirmed keynote speakers include: Patrick Burns (Burns

Hi R ?users, ? I am using R-2.14.0 on Windows XP. ? May I request you to assist me for the following please. ? I like to extract all the fields (example: a : Ask, b : Bid, ??, w : 52-week Range, x: Stock Exchange) ?for certain period of time, say, 1 October 2011 to 31 October 2011. ? Is there any R-Package(s) & any R- script please? ? Once again, thank you very much for the time you have

Sincerely, Jeffrey Todd Lins Executive Director Quantitative Analysis Saxo Bank A/S (Sent from my BlackBerry) ----- Original Message ----- From: r-sig-finance-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch <r-sig-finance-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch> To: r-help <R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>; r-sig-finance at stat.math.ethz.ch <r-sig-finance at stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent: Wed Apr 02 06:49:54 2008

I don't understand your question but there is a package called VARs that may be helpful to you. -----Original Message----- From: r-sig-finance-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-sig-finance-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of liu lu Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 8:39 AM To: r-sig-finance at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R-SIG-Finance] question on analyzing of correlation structure

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16088 Summary: Google Finance doesn't work Product: swfdec Version: 0.6.6 Platform: x86-64 (AMD64) URL: http://finance.google.com/finance?q=intl OS/Version: Linux (All) Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: medium Component: library

Call for Papers: R/Finance 2011: Applied Finance with R April 29 and 30, 2011 Chicago, IL, USA The third annual R/Finance conference for applied finance using R will be held this spring in Chicago, IL, USA on April 29 and 30, 2011. The two-day conference will cover topics including portfolio management, time series analysis, advanced risk tools, high-performance computing, market microstructure

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