Hi all R-Experts,

I'm facing one problem in yahoo data downloading. I'm suing Windows XP, R 2.2.0, and i'm using yahoo.get.hist.quote function to download data. I need 500 companies of S&P index daily 'closing price' data for last ten years. My questions are:

1) I have all the ticker names of S&P 500 companies in a .csv format. I'm reading those names in R and they are coming as data.frame object. How can i change this to a vector?

2) How can i get all companies data downloaded using a simple "for" loop?

I'm using the following function for a single stock data.


library(gdata)
s<-yahoo.get.hist.quote(instrument = "mo", destfile = paste("mo", ".csv", sep = ""), start="1996-01-01",
                     end="2006-06-16", quote = c("Close"), adjusted = TRUE, download = TRUE, origin = "1970-01-01",
                     compression = "d")


Thanks,
Sumanta Basak.

 				
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