[R-SIG-Finance] 4-digit SIC codes

Chirag Anand anand.chirag at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 15:31:45 CET 2013


On 5 February 2013 19:50, David Reiner <David.Reiner at xrtrading.com> wrote:
> Very nice, Garrett!
> More curious than anything, but does anyone know why I get the extraneous characters when I do it?
> They are present in x as well. I believe they are non-breaking spaces.

Hi David,

I generally get rid of these characters by doing:
$ LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/R

You may want to export this variable during shell spawn, so that you
don't have to do this every time.
HTH


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-sig-finance-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-sig-finance-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of G See
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 9:30 PM
> To: Bastian Offermann
> Cc: r-sig-finance at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] 4-digit SIC codes
>
> I'm not sure, but here's a really quick and dirty way to get it
>
>> library(XML)
>> x <- readHTMLTable("http://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/siccodes.htm",
>                                   stringsAsFactors=FALSE)[[4]]
>> colnames(x) <- x[2, ]
>> SIC <- x[-c(1:3), ]
>> head(SIC)
>   SICCode A/D  Office                                    Industry Title
> 4     100           5                     AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION-CROPS
> 5     200           5  AGRICULTURAL PROD-LIVESTOCK & ANIMAL SPECIALTIES
> 6     700           5                             AGRICULTURAL SERVICES
> 7     800           5                                          FORESTRY
> 8     900           5                     FISHING, HUNTING AND TRAPPING
> 9    1000           9                                      METAL MINING
>
>> SIC[SIC$SICCode == "2834", ]
>    SICCode A/D  Office               Industry Title
> 91    2834           1  PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS
>
> HTH,
> Garrett
>
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Bastian Offermann
> <bastian2507hk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> does anybody know whether 4-digit SIC codes are available in R? Something
>> along the lines
>>
>> "2834" "Pharmaceutical Preparations"
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
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