[R-SIG-Finance] I know I should be able to figure this out...

[Samuel Wilson]

  DUH!!!


THANK YOU!


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> On Apr 6, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think you're overthinking. Look at the auto.assign arg to getSymbols. 
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> for(x in tickers){
> data <- getSymbols(x, auto.assign=FALSE)
> # Process `data` ...
> }
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> Michael
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>> On Apr 6, 2015, at 12:59 PM, Samuel Wilson <samuelcoltwilson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> As an experienced R Programmer, I should be able to figure this out, but
>> I'm stuck. I'm sure the answer is obvious, but for some reason I just
>> can't get my brain to wrap around the answer.
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>> I'm trying to create a script that takes a list of equity tickers (60-80
>> tickers each day), and downloads their prices and puts them into
>> data.frames. I usually use the getSymbols command, but here is the issue.
>> The I somehow need to be able to put the output of getSymbols to generic
>> variables. For example, "stock[1]", "stock[2]", etc. This way I can use a
>> generic loop to transform the data and output it to the next step.
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>> When I traditionally use the getSymbols command, the return is the equity
>> ticker with the OLHC prices. However, I want to build a generic engine
>> using for.next loops, because the list of tickers will change each day.
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>> Is the issue I can't use getSymbols? or is the issue that somehow I need
>> to use the upfront ticker list as a variable list and make it work, but
>> there is a class of variable I don't understand. Because if I use a
>> variable call generically list[1], it does not return the stock prices.
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>> tickers<-c("GLD","DBC", "EEM", "EFV",
>> "EFG","BND","TLT","SHY","IWF","IWD","IWC","IWO","IWN","VNQ")
>> getSymbols(tickers, from="2013-01-01")
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>> For example, if I just do a tickers[1] in the console, I get "GLD" not the
>> OLHC prices for GLD. How do I get tickers[1] as a variable I can use to
>> pull the prices out of? Because tickers[1] will change everyday (this is
>> just a made up example).
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>> As I said, I'm sure some is going to look at this and say, Really? but for
>> some reason I just can't get my brain wrapped around it.
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>> 
>> Sam
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