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

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Very cool Sean. Thank you!

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Sean Carmody<seancarmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> Use "from" rather than "start" and you'll be fine.
> Sean.
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:04 PM, R_help Help<rhelpacc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sorry when I said xts I meant quantmod. Please see my code below. If
>> you ever use quantmod getSymbols, the code below should be clear to
>> you. Another package was tseries. Somehow zoo vignette has an example
>> on it. So I just called it zoo. Regardless of which, the problem is
>> the same. Thanks.
>>
>>> getSymbols("JPM",start="2006-01-01")
>> [1] "JPM"
>>> head(JPM)
>>           JPM.Open JPM.High JPM.Low JPM.Close JPM.Volume JPM.Adjusted
>> 2007-01-03    48.00    48.37   47.59     48.07   14244700        44.71
>> 2007-01-04    48.05    48.55   47.75     48.19    9471500        44.82
>> 2007-01-05    48.17    48.25   47.63     47.79   10760500        44.45
>> 2007-01-08    47.57    48.06   47.32     47.95    8239200        44.60
>> 2007-01-09    47.90    48.11   47.36     47.75    9276700        44.41
>> 2007-01-10    47.47    48.12   47.44     48.10   15597000        44.74
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:53 PM, 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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