| yahoo.get.hist.quote {UsingR} | R Documentation |
Download stock data from Yahoo!
Description
Downloads stock data from Yahoo!
Usage
yahoo.get.hist.quote(instrument = "^gspc",
destfile = paste(instrument, ".csv", sep = ""),
start, end, quote = c("Open", "High", "Low", "Close"),
adjusted = TRUE, download = TRUE,
origin = "1970-01-01", compression = "d")
Arguments
instrument |
Ticker symbol as character string. |
destfile |
Temporary file for storage |
start |
Date to start. Specified as "2005-12-31" |
end |
Date to end |
quote |
Any/All of "Open", "High", "Low", "Close" |
adjusted |
Adjust for stock splits, dividends. Defaults to TRUE |
download |
Download the data |
origin |
Dates are recorded in the number of days since the origin. A value of "1970-01-01" is the default. This was changed from "1899-12-30". |
compression |
Passed to yahoo |
Details
Goes to chart.yahoo.com and downloads the stock data. By default returns a multiple time series of class mts with missing days padded by NAs.
Value
A multiple time series with time measureing the number of days since the value specified to origin.
Author(s)
Daniel Herlemont <dherlemont@yats.com>
References
This function was found on the mailling list for R-SIG finance
See Also
yahoo.get.hist.quote in the tseries package