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

[Joshua Ulrich]

Gero,

The stockSymbols() function in the TTR package downloads all the
ticker symbols (from the NASDAQ CSV files Brian mentioned) into a
data.frame.

Best,
Josh
--
http://www.fosstrading.com



On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Brian G. Peterson <brian at braverock.com> wrote:
> 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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