[R-SIG-Finance] How to get data from another source when the first one fails...

[Joshua Ulrich]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 8:16 PM, George Kumar <grgkumar4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I use following command to make getSymbols (from quantmod package) get data
> from locally stored csv files.
>
> setDefaults(getSymbols,src='csv')
>
> My problem is that if the data is not found locally, I want it to get it
> from yahoo/google. How to go about doing this. If setDefaults allowed
> multiple sources, it would have been possible. Something like the following:
>
> setDefaults(getSymbols,src='csv yahoo')
>
> Please let me know how this can be done.
>
Write your own getSymbols function, e.g. getSymbols.csv2yahoo.  Then
wrap your call to getSymbols.csv in a try or tryCatch call.  If the
getSymbols.csv call fails, you can then call getSymbols.yahoo.

> Thanks.
> George
>
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