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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hi Jeff,</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks for the tip, I'll take a look at how that's structured. I'm still new to quantmod and haven't looked at how newTA works. I want to retrieve data from a number of sources, such as the DoE, National Association of Realtors, the LIBOR rates (coudn't get it to work from economagic). I'm also interested in extracting data from other countries, but I haven't gotten that far yet. Curiously, some of these sites provide links only as Excel files (and not just csvs with an xls extension), so there may need to be additional processing. </FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Brian</FONT><BR>
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Sent: 2008/11/27 10:40:52 <BR>
Subject: Re:Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Adding data providers to quantmod <BR>
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Hi Brian, <BR>
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There isn't a great way to do this yet. The dispatch internally is <BR>
essentially nothing more that paste("getSymbols",src, sep="."). <BR>
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quantmod:::getSymbols.skeleton is a starting place, as would be any of <BR>
the current methods. <BR>
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I will be adding something closer to 'newTA' to auto-generate the <BR>
function for you (within reason), but it is not done yet. <BR>
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What data sources are you thinking of (besides the census)? Are there <BR>
public API (official or unofficial)? <BR>
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Jeff <BR>
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On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Brian Lee Yung Rowe wrote: <BR>
> Hello, <BR>
> <BR>
> I am using quantmod to download FRED data and am interested in downloading <BR>
> series from other providers (e.g. the Census Bureau). Is there a method for <BR>
> attaching new getSymbols.* to the getSymbols interface or other recommended <BR>
> practice for consolidating the data retrieval process? <BR>
> <BR>
> Thanks, <BR>
> Brian <BR>
> <BR>
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