[R-SIG-Finance] [QuantMod] Load all stock symbols

[Jeff Ryan]

Just extend the logic you have.

A full list of S&P symbols can be found via google (current and
historical), and you can just create a semi-colon delimited string to
pass into the function.

The function will pause 1s between requests after 5 symbols in one
call, so as to be kind to the Yahoo servers.  Left as a user exercise
if you are bent on bypassing.

HTH
Jeff

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Paolo Cabaleiro
<gian.cabaleiro at alumnos.usm.cl> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I was wondering how to load all the symbols at once using Quantmod.
>
> I am trying to load them, so I will be able to test a set of parameters for
> each one.
>
> For example, if the S&P where to have only 3 symbols, I could just write
> this...
>> getSymbols("KO;PEP;SBUX")
>> test(KO)
>> test(PEP)
>> test(SBUX)
>
> but, how can I try this over all the S&P?
> btw, test is a made-up function to illustrate the idea.
>
> Thanks you
>
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