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

[julien cuisinier]

Hi Gero,


If you go on yahoo finance and choose an index, there is a link  
"components" that you can download in a spreadsheet. I guess that  
should cover your needs

e.g. for the SP500:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cp?s=^GSPC

hope that helps


Rgds,
Julien


On 15 Nov 2009, at 13:44, 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?
>
> Kind regards,
> Gero
>
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