[R-SIG-Finance] Equities Data

[G See]

I guess since you really only care about the future, this would be
more appropriate

    sc <- getSplitsCalendar(from='2012-09-05', to='2012-12-31')
    sc[sc$Symbol =="LKQ", ]
         Payable    Ex.Date Company Symbol Optionable. Ratio  Announced
    4 2012-09-18 2012-09-19     LKQ    LKQ           Y   2-1 2012-08-17


On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:44 PM, G See <gsee000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's not really how the website is setup.  So, I don't think that's
> how the function should be setup by default.  But, you can easily
> filter the results by Symbol.
>
> Here is the wrapper I mentioned.
>
>     getSplitsCalendar <- function(from, to) {
>       qmao:::getCalendarByMonth(".getSplitsCalendar", from=from, to=to)
>     }
>
> This allows you to get and merge several months of splits calendars.
>
>     sc <- getSplitsCalendar(from='2012-01-01', to='2012-08-31')
>
> Now you have the splits calendar from January to August.  You can
> filter that by the symbol you care about.
>
> sc[sc$Symbol == "ALK", ]
>       Payable    Ex.Date    Company Symbol Optionable. Ratio  Announced
> 52 2012-03-16 2012-03-19 Alaska Air    ALK           Y   2-1 2012-02-16
>
> Good enough?
>
> Garrett
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Ralph Vince <rvince99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Garrett,
>>
>> This is great. Do you think it would be possible to pass in a given
>> ticker to get that informatoin, rather than getting the whole gulp?
>> Ralph Vince
>>