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

[me at censix.com]

Thanks for the guidance and suggestions. unfortunately I am a bit short of
time, so won't make an attempt to build a package for this, but may work
on an ad-hoc solution instead.

Cheers

Soren

> 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
>>
>