[R-SIG-Finance] Harvesting Historical Data

[Ilya Kipnis]

symbols <- c("Your", "Hundreds", "Of", "Symbols")
getSymbols(symbols, from = "1900-01-01")

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 10:16 PM, Curtis Snell <C.W.Snell at eagle.clarion.edu>
wrote:

> ?Looking for a little help here.
>
>
> I harvest historical data for 200-500 stocks.  I remember there is an 'R'
> script that can pull the data from yahoo finance and compose it into a .txt
> file
>
> Wondering if anyone knew where I could get a copy of the script.  I should
> be able to process the .txt file into excel without too much difficulty.
>
>
> Grabbing this data individually is taking me 8-24 hours of work.  This
> should shorten that to 30 minutes or so.  I know this isn't really a
> technical question, but I could use some help/info.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> Curt
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