[R-SIG-Finance] FinData provider Xiginte and R

[Tobias Verbeke]

Hi,

Brian G. Peterson wrote:
> me at censix.com wrote:

>> >From following the list discussions I get that there are R packages for
>> pulling Bloomberg and LIM(?) data into R. Does anybody know if there is
>> such a package for Xignite.com ? (I looked at xignite because they 
>> provide
>> the financial data that is used in wolframalpha.com. I like their "you
>> only pay what you use" pricing model)
>>
>> http://www.xignite.com/Support/GettingStarted.aspx
>>
>> If not, does anyone think that creating one would be a straightforward
>> thing, i.e. could such a package be derived from one of the existing
>> packages fairly quickly?
>>   
> Soren,
> 
> There's nothing available that I'm aware of.
> 
> The Xignite.com API is a SOAP/WSDL web service.
> 
> To integrate to R, you could try two main approaches that I would try n 
> the following order:
> 
> - There are a couple of R/SOAP integration projects out there. You could 
> test and potentially use one of these as a 'Requires' for your Xignite 
> integration.

http://www.omegahat.org/SSOAP/

for example.

> - use some other SOAP client libraries in another language, and link 
> that into your package.
> 
> I know that the biocep folks have done some work in SOAP/WSDL to 
> integrate to Eucalyptus and Amazon's web services, so further discussion 

IIRC Amazon's web services are RESTful (not SOAP based);
for this the R packages RCurl (in combination with XML
or rjson/RJSONIO)) can be used.

Best,
Tobias

> on the issues you have trying to develop some integration might be 
> better served on a more general R list, as web services development is 
> not finance specific (though I realize that the data is).
> 
> Regards,
> 
>  - Brian
>