similar to: Problem with getFX function

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 --

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

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) {

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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

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.