[R-SIG-Finance] fImport : where to get a list of ticker symbols?

[Brian G. Peterson]

Gero Schwenk wrote:
> Hello together!
> I want to undertake exploratory analyses (clustering, PCA, etc...) on 
> historic data downloaded with yahooSeries (fImport-package). In order 
> to download the data, I need a collection of ticker symbols. Is there 
> some list or table out there, so that I don't need to look up the 
> ticker symbols manually? Can anybody give me a hint?
I don't know if fImport contains such a list.

In R:


require(quantmod)
?getSymbol

NASQAQ also used to publis spreadsheets or CSV files of all US-listed 
securities traded on major exchanges.

Bloomberg publishes their lists of symbols and identifiers as well.

Cheers,

  - Brian

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