get.price.yahoo {FinAna}

Download financial data from Yahoo finance

Description

Download stock prices for one company or a list of companies from Yahoo finance. The function can download daily, weekly and monthly data. And furthur application of rate of return function and beta function in the package for more analysis.

Usage

get.price.yahoo(tkr, bg = "first",ed = "today", f = "d")

Arguments

tkr

:company ticker, e.g. "BABA","AMZN"

bg

:beginning date, e.g. "first","2000-02-29"

ed

:ending date, e.g. "today", "2016-11-10"

f

:frequency, e.g. "d" for daily,"w" for weekly,"m" for monthly

Examples

#get.price.yahoo("GOOG")
#get.price.yahoo("GOOG", bg = "first",ed = "today", f = "d")
# the two above are the same
#
# tkr <- c("AAPL", "IBM","YHOO")
# pricelist <- get.price.yahoo(tkr, bg = "first",ed = "today", f = "m")
# aapl <- pricelist[1] # convert to single data.frame
# ibm <- pricelist[2] # convert to single data.frame
# yhoo <- pricelist[3] # convert to single data.frame