Dear Enrico,

How / where did you discover that it should be "INR=X" instead of the symbol
"USDINR=X"

Many thanks,
Ashim

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Enrico Schumann <enricoschumann@yahoo.de>wrote:

>
> Try this:
>
> require("quantmod")
> INRUSD <- getSymbols("INR=X",src="yahoo"**, auto.assign = FALSE)
>
>
> Regards,
> Enrico
>
> Am 22.09.2011 10:42, schrieb Wolfgang Wu:
>
>  Ashim,
>>
>> Unfortunately I couldn't get any data from Yahoo or Google either. I
>> thought you had to do something like getSymbols("CURRENCY:INRUSD",**src="google"),
>> but that doesn't work anymore either.
>>
>> Best solution I can give you is to use the Oanda source for currency data.
>> They do limit you to 500 days of data but you can easily write a loop
>> changing the "from" and "to" times and rbind the xts object together
>> afterwards.
>>
>> INRUSD<- getSymbols('INR/USD', src='oanda', auto.assign = FALSE)
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Wolfgang Wu
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Ursprüngliche Message -----
>> Von: Ashim Kapoor<ashimkapoor@gmail.com>
>> An: r-sig-finance@r-project.org
>> Cc:
>> Gesendet: 8:32 Donnerstag, 22.September 2011
>> Betreff: [R-SIG-Finance] Currency data from GOOGLE/Yahoo finance.
>>
>> Dear R-helpers,
>>
>> I am trying to use getSymbols to download INR/USD data from yahoo or
>> google
>> finance. In each case I 1st list the website and then the R error which I
>> get on trying to download the symbol. Could someone please tell me where I
>> am wrong?
>>
>> http://www.google.com/finance?**q=inrusd<http://www.google.com/finance?q=inrusd>
>>
>>  getSymbols("inrusd",src="**google")
>>>
>> Error in download.file(paste(google.**URL, "q=", Symbols.name,
>> "&startdate=",
>> :
>>   cannot open URL '
>> http://finance.google.com/**finance/historical?q=inrusd&**
>> startdate=Jan+01,+2007&**enddate=Sep+22,+2011&output=**csv<http://finance.google.com/finance/historical?q=inrusd&startdate=Jan+01,+2007&enddate=Sep+22,+2011&output=csv>
>> '
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> In download.file(paste(google.**URL, "q=", Symbols.name, "&startdate=",
>>  :
>>   cannot open: HTTP status was '400 Bad Request'
>>
>> http://in.finance.yahoo.com/q?**s=USDINR%3DX&ql=1<http://in.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=USDINR%3DX&ql=1>
>>
>>  getSymbols("USDINR=X",src="**yahoo")
>>>
>> Error in download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m,
>> :
>>   cannot open URL '
>> http://chart.yahoo.com/table.**csv?s=USDINR=X&a=0&b=01&c=**
>> 2007&d=8&e=22&f=2011&g=d&q=q&**y=0&z=USDINR=X&x=.csv<http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=USDINR=X&a=0&b=01&c=2007&d=8&e=22&f=2011&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=USDINR=X&x=.csv>
>> '
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> In download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m,  :
>>   unable to resolve 'chart.yahoo.com'
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Ashim
>>
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> Enrico Schumann
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