Gordon,

GREAT suggestion.  That is exactly what I need. 

Thank You!


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Noah Silverman
UCLA Department of Statistics
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On Apr 30, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Noah Silverman wrote:

> I have a large list of stocks (around 5,000)  and want to fetch the historical returns for a few single days for all of them. (Maybe 20 dates in total - non-contiguous.)
> 
> Sure, the quantmod package can do this, but yahoo or google will block me after a few requests.  It would also take forever that way.
> 
> Does anybody have any ideas on an efficient way to do this.  	
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> Thanks!
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