[R] Extracting information from webpages

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Check out get.hist.quote in package tseries.

Scott Waichler <scott.waichler <at> verizon.net> writes:

: 
: > Hello R Community,
: > 
: > I would like to be able to download recent (yesterday's close is fine)
: > stock and 
: > mutual fund prices from somewhere and use them for a personal finance
: > project. 
: > Ideally, I would do this at a website of my choosing (e.g.
: > morningstar.com) and
: > have the possibility of getting a wide range of other information about
: > the security 
: > as well.  I see there is a package httpRequest that should allow me to 
: > retrieve the webpage with an posted security symbol.  I looked at package 
: > XML for processing the returned webpage, but it didn't work on an 
: > example *.asp file that I tried.  I also checked out the nascent package
: > fBasics, 
: > but I didn't find what I'm looking for.  I know there is a Perl module
: > Finance::Quote; 
: > should I go that route and avoid trying to parse webpages?  I was hoping
: > to learn 
: > how to extract information from webpages in general so I could apply the
: > techniques 
: > for other purposes too.
: > 
: > Thanks,
: > Scott Waichler
: > scott <at> lifetime.oregonstate.edu
: > ***********************************************************************
: > 
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