[R-SIG-Finance] Interaction with Alpha Vantage?

Erol Biceroglu erol.biceroglu at alumni.utoronto.ca
Mon Nov 6 23:16:34 CET 2017


To be fair, as long as we're not being spammed and the data works, (and
it's free), ... and relatively accurate, I think we're okay.  (May or may
not be speaking from experience).

I can visualize a scenario where a few busy people are putting this
together.

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 3:34 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 06/11/2017 2:20 PM, Daniel Cegiełka wrote:
> > 2017-11-06 19:37 GMT+01:00 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>:
> >
> >>
> >> I'm not so sure.  I haven't noticed any problems in their data (though
> I haven't done extensive testing), but in my opinion it is a bad sign if
> there's no way to contact them.
> >
> > e.g. 2004-11-01
> >
> >> GS['2004-10-28/2004-11-03','Low']
> >               Low
> > 2004-10-28 95.80
> > 2004-10-29 97.43
> > 2004-11-01  9.12
> > 2004-11-02 98.50
> > 2004-11-03 98.68
> >
>
> Did you try reporting that to Alpha Vantage?  That's the kind of thing
> they did respond to on Aug 17 (see
> https://github.com/joshuaulrich/quantmod/issues/176).
>
> Now that I read those messages more closely, it does appear they were in
> touch with anozari sometime in July.  So perhaps it's just me they don't
> respond to.  I was asking how to do things (and suggesting documentation
> and metadata additions), I wasn't reporting on data errors.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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