[R-SIG-Finance] direct data download from metastock

[alexios]

There is also a metastock 2 ascii command line utility called 
MsCmdLineUtils on the net (opensource) which I have successfully used to 
automatically scan metastock folders, convert to ascii, concatenate into 
one large file and import into R. You can do all this in R with the use 
of the "system" and "file.copy" commands.

-Alexios


On 12/18/2009 6:11 AM, SNV Krishna wrote:
> Hi Cedrick,
>
> I can use the convert option in metastock downloader. the problem is
> with number. I have securities organized in 8 different folders with
> total no > 2000. and every day these securities gets updated with
> reuters datalink. using the chain metastock (multiple securities in
> different folders) to csv and csv to r-software could be very cumbersome
> on a daily basis.
>
> i am looking for better way possible.
>
> many thanks and regards,
>
> krishna
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cedrick W. Johnson"
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> To: "SNV Krishna" <krishna at primps.com.sg>
> Cc: <r-sig-finance at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 1:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] direct data download from metastock
>
>
>> You could try exporting the data from Metastock in csv format, then try
>>
>> ?read.csv
>>
>>
>> SNV Krishna wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> is there a way to download data from metastock to R-software. most of
>>> my data is in date,OHLC format downloaded from reuters to metastock
>>> software in my local pc.
>>> many thanks for the help.,
>>>
>>> krishna
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