[R-SIG-Finance] Reply to: How can I get Japanese Stock Daily Data in R?

[Wouter Thielen]

Glad to see it included in quantmod! Thanks, Joshua!

Also, a Happy New Year to all!

Wouter
On Fri Jan 02 2015 at 9:27:12 AM Joshua Ulrich <josh.m.ulrich at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Joshua Ulrich <josh.m.ulrich at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Wouter Thielen <wouter at morannon.org>
> wrote:
> >> Sorry for not being able to reply directly to the related thread,
> because I
> >> was getting mails in daily batches. I have updated my settings for this.
> >>
> >> I did make an R script to be included in the quantmod package, but I
> >> haven't received any feedback from the community. The script can be
> found
> >> here: https://github.com/wthielen/YJStocks/blob/master/
> getSymbols.yahooj.R
> >>
> >> To be able to use it in this shape, you need to do the following:
> >> - Include the quantmod library first: library(quantmod)
> >> - Load getSymbols.R file from the quantmod source, for some internal
> >> dependencies
> >> - Pass any "missing" arguments that would be coming from the main
> >> getSymbols() call: verbose and auto.assign
> >>
> >> An example routine would be:
> >>
> >> library(quantmod)
> >> source("/path/to/quantmodpackage/pkg/R/getSymbols.R")
> >> source("/path/to/getSymbols.yahooj.R")
> >> getSymbols.yahooj("3048.T", verbose=TRUE, auto.assign=TRUE)
> >>
> >> And then you will see it downloading daily stock data for Biccamera, and
> >> assigning it to the "YJ3048.T" xts object.
> >>
> >> I hope it will be included into the getSymbols.R file from the quantmod
> >> package, so that it becomes a standard function.
> >>
> > I think this is something that can be directly included in quantmod.
> > But for that to happen, you also need a corresponding .Rd file.  It
> > would be very helpful if you could also provide that file, and even
> > more helpful if you ensure that quantmod still passes R CMD check
> > after your incorporate your changes.
> >
> Thanks to Wouter, this functionality is now in quantmod on R-Forge as
> of revision 624:
> https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/pkg/R/
> getSymbols.R?root=quantmod&r1=623&r2=624
>
> >> Hope this helps!
> >>
> >> --
> >> Wouter Thielen
> >>
> >
> > --
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>
>
>
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