[R-SIG-Finance] Equities Data

[Ralph Vince]

Garrett, this is really great. So I only need to get the latest qmao
to do this? It's in CRAN? Ralph VInce

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:49 PM, G See <gsee000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>