[R-SIG-Finance] Fwd: how to rename stock codes?

[Marco Sun]

Ok, I’ve found a previous solution here https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-finance/attachments/20100722/1ca9df46/attachment.pl

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> From: Marco Sun <hs13322 at my.bristol.ac.uk>
> Subject: how to rename stock codes?
> Date: 4 December 2014 03:32:12 pm GMT+8
> To: r-sig-finance at r-project.org
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> Hello Sage R people,
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> I am able to retrieve data and rename the stock code one by one through quantmod package as the following:
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> symbols<-c("AAPL","MSFT")
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> stockcodes<-c("A","B")
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> setSymbolLookup(A=list(name="AAPL",src="yahoo"))
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> getSymbols("A")
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> setSymbolLookup(B=list(name=“MSFT",src="yahoo"))
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> getSymbols(“B")
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> However, the same logic is not approachable in the “mass production era” like this:
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> for (i in 1:2)
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> {
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>   getSymbolLookup(stockcodes[i]=list(name=symbols[i],src="yahoo"))
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>   getSymbols("stockcodes[i]")
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> }
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> I guess the problem lies in stockcodes[i] as indicated in red. Any comment would be appreciated.
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Marco 
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