[R] problem with quantmod package

[R. Michael Weylandt]

I believe it's because they are not made available for download as a csv file.

Compare:

https://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=NSE:TCS

with

https://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=NASDAQ:AAPL

You'll see that for AAPL, there is an option to export prices on the
right hand side: that's what getSymbol() takes advantage of.

Why it exists I don't know, but it probably has to do with how much
google is willing to pay for licensing to foreign exchanges.

You could perhaps write something to read the price table that google
shows or if you find the data available elsewhere on a csv, I'm sure
the package authors would be willing to add another method for
getSymbols.

Michael

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:07 AM, ATANU <ata.sonu at gmail.com> wrote:
> i am using quantmod package.it get stock quotes from google finanace. but
> unfortunately i am not able to get the quotations of some stocks(e.g.
> NSE:TCS,NSE:SAIL ) through the "getSymbol" command of this package although
> they are available in the google finance website. anyone please help me.
> thanks in advance.....
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