[R] Financial Statements Date Subsetting

[R. Michael Weylandt]

You're leaving out a step -- take a look at the examples for viewFin
and note that you have to download the financial data first with
getFin()

Michael

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Brian Edmundson
<brianedmundson1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I'm new at R, but I really just need a couple of things.  The first thing I
> need is to figure out how to get each individual financial statement
> (CF,BS,IS).  I need each individual one because getting them all at once
> allows for formatting issues once it is a CSV.  The date subsetting is what
> I need because I will be running a statistical model in excel.  I know I
> could probably build a cleaner model in R, but I have already built it in
> excel.
>
> The first place I am stuck at is actually viewing the financials. I have
> gotten it to work a few times, but i am trying to script the installation
> sequence ( I still assume I have to load the packages as well - which I
> have done).
>
> I have tried this sequence downloading straight from the - i think - the
> CRAN mirror and I have also tried downloading this sequence straight from
> R-Project.com...
>
> install.packages("TTR")
> install.packages("zoo")
> install.packages("Defaults")
> install.packages("xts")
> install.packages("quantmod")
>
> this still (from both downloading sources) produces
>
> viewFin("GE.f", "BS", "Q")
> Error in viewFin("GE.f", "BS", "Q") : ‘x’ must be of type ‘financials’
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated - thank everyone so much!
>
>
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