Thanks, it worked!

I also just found a solution by setting auto.assign to false, so I can
assign it to a more friendly name.

KOZAA<-getSymbols("IST::KOZAA-E", auto.assign=FALSE)

Best,

Berk


On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Joshua Ulrich <josh.m.ulrich@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Berk Orbay <berkorbay@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a problem and could not find any mention of it anywhere (maybe I
> > overlooked a term). When using Quantmod's getSymbols function I am having
> > trouble to get details on the tickers. To illustrate,
> >
> > getSymbols("XU030",src="google")
> > XU030
> >
> > works fine to get historical prices but when the symbol becomes
> IST::KOZAA-E
> >
> >
> https://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=IST%3A%3AKOZAA-E&ei=kXq-U_PpFs-uwAPt9YCYCg
> >
> > getSymbols("IST::KOZAA-E",src="google")
> >
> > is also fine but since I cannot write IST::KOZAA-E to console I cannot
> > reach the historical prices.
> >
> > I can use ^GSPC from Yahoo but the package deletes ^ when importing.
> >
> > Is there any way to get info from weird symbols?
> >
> Use backticks (see the "Names and Identifiers" section of ?Quotes).
> Or set auto.assign=FALSE in getSymbols and assign it to a new name.
>
> > head(Cl(`IST::KOZAA-E`))
>            IST::KOZAA-E.Close
> 2013-06-17               3.67
> 2013-06-18               3.62
> 2013-06-19               3.65
> 2013-06-20               3.34
> 2013-06-21               3.26
> 2013-06-24               2.91
>
> Best,
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