[R-SIG-Finance] Earliest available data on yahoo to download

[Sean Carmody]

Assuming you are using quantmod, try the from argument. For example:

getSymbols("^AORD", from="2000-01-01")

will retrieve data going back to 2000 from yahoo while

getSymbols("^AORD")

defaults to just retrieving data from the last two years.

Sean.

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Joshua Ulrich<josh.m.ulrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> It would really help if you provided reproducible code, especially
> since neither zoo or xts have methods to access Yahoo data.
>
> Best,
> Josh
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> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:47 PM, R_help Help<rhelpacc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi - I used xts and zoo to try to download stock data from yahoo. I
>> set the start date to 2005-01-01. I got only portion starting from
>> 2007-01-03. However, if I got to yahoo and manually click to download
>> historical data it will give me everything. So is this a known problem
>> with xts and zoo? Or is it a problem with yahoo? Is there anyway
>> around? Thank you in advance.
>>
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