[R-SIG-Finance] for help: quantmod library: getSymbols("000002.SS")

[Jeff Ryan]

Take a look here:

http://www.nabble.com/Newbie-question-on-getSymbols%28%29-in-quantmod-tt21226579.html

You can either set 'auto.assign=FALSE' in the getSymbols call, and do
the assignment to a variable of your choosing with <-

-OR-

You can use ?setSymbolLookup to names from the source (Yahoo) to R

To set auto.assign=FALSE for all future calls you can use setDefaults
from the Defaults library (included by quantmod)

setDefaults(getSymbols, auto.assign=FALSE)

and all future calls will follow that rule.

HTH,
Jeff

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:13 PM, elton wang <ahala2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Jeff and all,
> How can I use quantmod to download stocks with special characters in names?
>
> for instance, SHA:000002 in Google or 000002.SS in Yahoo, with getSymbols("000002.SS"), the output variable name is illegal in R.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> elton
>
>
>
>



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