2011/11/28 George Kumar <grgkumar4@gmail.com>

> Thanks Daniel. But my problem is not to hold the full name, but rather a
> way
> to get the mapping for ticker to the full name. I have some webform where
> people would enter tickers, and I'd like to go fetch them the full name for
> the entity the ticker represents, be it a company or a fund or something
> else.
>
>
http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=CSCO&d=10&e=28&f=2011&g=d&a=2&b=26&c=1990&ignore=.csv

You can't do this using quantmod, because cvs file does not store a full
name. You can add a function that will be collected the full name from some
site or build your own symbol database - using FinancialInstrument. You
have a lot of pre-defined samples:

https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/pkg/FinancialInstrument/data/?root=blotter

regards,
daniel



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> George.
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