[R-sig-finance] Reading Foreign Exchange XML Data

Charles and Kimberly Maner ckjmaner at carolina.rr.com
Sat Nov 6 00:39:58 CET 2004


 
Hi all.  Does anyone know of an R package which reads and dynamically
creates an R data object, (e.g., dataframe, ts, its object), from the
foreign exchange data posted on the Fed Reserve Bank of New York website,
http://www.ny.frb.org/xml/fx.html?  Currently, I'm parsing it using a
sed/vim script to create a CSV file then importing it into R using read.csv.
I've a hunch there's an easier way but am yet to come across one.  Any help
would be appreciated.


Thanks,
Charles



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