ds.getSymbol.yahoo {rtsdata}

Get quotes from Yahoo Finance

Description

Download historical data from Yahoo Finance using 'getSymbols.yahoo' function from 'quantmod' package.

Download historical data from FRED using 'get_fred_series' function from 'alfred' package.

Download historical data from Quandl using 'Quandl' function from 'Quandl' package.

Download historical data from AlphaVantage using 'getSymbols.av' function from 'quantmod' package.

Download historical data from Tiingo using 'getSymbols.tiingo' function from 'quantmod' package.

Generate fake stock data for use in rtsdata examples

Usage

ds.getSymbol.yahoo(Symbol, from = "1900-01-01", to = Sys.Date())

ds.getSymbol.FRED(Symbol, from = "1900-01-01", to = Sys.Date())

ds.getSymbol.Quandl(Symbol, from = "1900-01-01", to = Sys.Date())

ds.getSymbol.av(Symbol, from = "1900-01-01", to = Sys.Date())

ds.getSymbol.tiingo(Symbol, from = "1900-01-01", to = Sys.Date())

ds.getSymbol.fake.stock.data(Symbol, from = "1900-01-01", to = Sys.Date())

Arguments

Symbol

symbol

from

start date, expected in yyyy-mm-dd format, defaults to 1900-01-01

to

end date, expected in yyyy-mm-dd format, defaults to today's date

Details

Quandl recommends getting an API key Add following code options(Quandl.api_key = api_key) to your .Rprofile file

You need an API key from www.alphavantage.co Add following code options(getSymbols.av.Default = api_key) to your .Rprofile file

You need an API key from api.tiingo.com Add following code options(getSymbols.av.Default = api_key) to your .Rprofile file

Value

xts object with data

Examples

 # get sample of the fake stock data
 ds.getSymbol.fake.stock.data('dummy', from = '2018-02-01', to = '2018-02-13')