[R-sig-finance] Its function and yahoo

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Tue May 3 03:36:13 CEST 2005


On 2 May 2005 at 16:39, Achim Zeileis wrote:
| Furthermore, it would probably be good to have a single authorative
| implementation instead of each time series package reproducing this
| functionality.
[...]
| An alternative would be to read from a connection (which could be a
| local file or a URL) with the default of querying yahoo.com.

So there: the price of immortality has now been raised to an authorative
implementation, based on get.hist.quotes() in tseries 0.9.26 which includes
the two newer patches from JAB and GG.  Given its' somewhat stale nature, a
zoo implementation may be preferred.

Dirk

-- 
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he 
predicted yesterday didn't happen today.  --  Laurence J. Peter



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