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

[Gabor Grothendieck]

The zoo vignette has an example of get.hist.quote from tseries, not
getSymbols from quantmod.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:04 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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>> http://www.fosstrading.com
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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