[R] How to use getSymbols() to get annual data

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 01/09/2017 7:37 PM, Yingrui Liu wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
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> How to use getSymbols() to get annual data? For example, I need the annual stock price of APPLE from the year 2000 to 2016. How to write the command? I only know how to get the daily data. It is:
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> getSymbols("AAPL",from="2000-01-01",to="2016-12-31")
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Presumably you'd need to loop over the years:  get all the daily data in 
a year, calculate the overall High and Low, take the Open from the first 
date, the Close from the last one, and repeat.

Duncan Murdoch