[R-SIG-Finance] Resource for company relationship

[Anshul Pandey]

Yes Ilya, I just realized that this is probably not the best place for this
question.
Sorry about that. I have already scraped wikipedia and historical news
articles, but I ended up mismatching quite a few entities.

@Brian: I will look into that for sure.

Thanks both of you.



On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 3:19 AM, Ilya Kipnis <ilya.kipnis at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is the correct mailing list for this information (I
> suppose it has a tangential use if one is willing to look for fundamental
> information as well, or do company vs. company comparisons), but it seems a
> different mailing list might be better suited. As far as I understand, your
> best bet would be to find a website with this information and write a web
> scraper.
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Anshul Pandey <anshul.bits at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> Is there an open source resource (or an R package) to get company
>> relationships, such as competition, supplier etc?
>> Hoover seems to provide this information.
>>
>> What is the best approach to create a custom mapping?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Anshul
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