[R-SIG-Finance] RFC: quantmod::getSymbols.MySQL

[Joshua Ulrich]

As many of you know, the Defaults package was removed from CRAN on
2014-10-03 at Jeff's request.  This broke a fair bit of functionality
in quantmod, most of which I have addressed in recent commits on
R-Forge.

One issue I have not resolved is how to adapt getSymbols.MySQL to the
new no-Defaults paradigm.  I will be taking over as maintainer of
quantmod, so I am soliciting input from getSymbols.MySQL users.

My proposed solution to getSymbols.MySQL is to look for specific
option()s if certain arguments are missing.  I think this is the
cleanest and most obvious solution, but am open to alternatives.  I
would use the option structure below, with only the three arguments
listed.

options(quantmod.defaults = list(
  getSymbols.MySQL = list(
    user="josh",
    password="secret",
    dbname="stocks")
  )
)

Should I consider another option structure?  Should additional
arguments be supported?  Anything else I'm missing?

Thanks,
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