[R-SIG-Finance] haver

[Joshua Ulrich]

Hi Amit,

While Haver does provide a lot of financial data, this question is
really more suited for R-help.  You will be much more likely to
receive a response in that forum, since many more people follow it.

Best,
--
Joshua Ulrich  |  FOSS Trading: www.fosstrading.com



On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 7:06 AM, amit jain <buddyhi at indiatimes.com> wrote:
> Hi
>  Has anyone downloaded Haver data into R.
>
> I am an R newbie, so please forgive any stupid questions.
>
> This is what i did so far :
>
> I was able to download data from Haver using an existing dll in Visual Basic(Excel).
> For e.g. I declared functions such as
>
> Private Declare Function DLXOpenDatabase Lib "DLXAPI32" (ByVal DBName$) As Long
>
> And then used them as
> k = DLXOpenDatabase("W:/DLX/USECON")
> MsgBox (k)
>
> Gives me '0' showing connection established
>
>
>
> Now I am trying to migrate this code to R and was wondering what is the easiest way to call an external dll in R.
>
> During my research I found this link
> http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/compilingDLLs/existingDLL.html
>
> But it seems to be old with expired links to further help pages.
>
> Can any one guide me on how best to connect to external dll's from R and if there is any easier way than writing a new wrapper dll?
>
>
> Best,
> Amit
>
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