[R] Extract Data from Yahoo Finance

[Joshua Ulrich]

Deb,

Sorry, you can't do that with getQuote because Yahoo does not make
those data available historically.  Generally, you will need to pay
for historical bid/ask (tick) data.

Best,
--
Joshua Ulrich  |  FOSS Trading: www.fosstrading.com



On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Deb Midya <debmidya at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Joshua,
>
> Thank you very much for your response.
>
> How can I use getQuote to download data for a stock for a certain period of
> time, say, 1 October 2011 to 31 October 2011.
>
> Once again, thank very much for the time you have given.
>
> Regards,
>
> Deb
> From: Joshua Ulrich <josh.m.ulrich at gmail.com>
> To: Deb Midya <debmidya at yahoo.com>
> Cc: R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt at gmail.com>; "r-help at r-project.org"
> <r-help at r-project.org>
> Sent: Friday, 4 November 2011 4:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] Extract Data from Yahoo Finance
>
> Deb,
>
> See getQuote in the quantmod package.  For example:
> getQuote("SPY")
>
> Be sure to read ?getQuote.
>
> Best,
> --
> Joshua Ulrich  |  FOSS Trading: www.fosstrading.com
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Deb Midya <debmidya at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Michael,
>>
>> Thanks for your response.
>>
>> The link to the page is: http://www.gummy-stuff.org/Yahoo-data.htm
>>
>> I like to download the fields (mentioned under special tags) for a period
>> of time and for a particular stock (or for a list of stocks).
>>
>> Once again, thank you very much for the time you have given.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Deb
>>
>> From: R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt at gmail.com>
>> To: Deb Midya <debmidya at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "r-help at r-project.org" <r-help at r-project.org>
>> Sent: Friday, 4 November 2011 12:13 AM
>> Subject: Re: [R] Extract Data from Yahoo Finance
>>
>> The quantmod package can probably do what you are asking, but it's a
>> little hard to be certain since you provide neither a list of all the
>> fields you are actually talking about nor a link to the page with the
>> fields in question.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Deb Midya <debmidya at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Hi R –users,
>>>
>>> I am using R-2.14.0 on Windows XP.
>>>
>>> May I request you to assist me for the following please.
>>>
>>> I like to extract all the fields (example: a : Ask, b : Bid, ……, w :
>>> 52-week Range, x: Stock Exchange)  for certain period of time, say, 1
>>> October 2011 to 31 October 2011.
>>>
>>> Is there any R-Package(s) & any R- script please?
>>>
>>> Once again, thank you very much for the time you have given.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Deb
>>>
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