[R-sig-finance] Its function and yahoo

[Jonathan Q.]

as a group can we decide what is the best approach to use yahoo for a newbie?  

On 5/3/05, Achim Zeileis <Achim.Zeileis at wu-wien.ac.at> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 May 2005 20:36:13 -0500 Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Well, but it seems that get.hist.quote() in tseries is still the most
> up-to-date implementation of this functionality, so probably this should
> be extended. I don't want to have the fourth implementation in the
> fourth time series package...
> 
> Personally, I have made only little use of get.hist.quote() and no use
> at all of priceIts() and yahooImport(). Do these other implementations
> provide further functionality, not contained in get.hist.quote(), or are
> they simply there for convenience?
> 
> If the latter and if it's ok for Adrian, I'll try to add something like
> a retclass argument for get.hist.quote() which could then be set to
> "zoo", "ts", "its" etc. (provided that the corresponding packages are
> available).
> 
> Z
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