Message-ID: <e8e755250901072123o7c195e3ei71575a0326a9e093@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2009-01-08T05:23:55Z
From: Jeff Ryan
Subject: for help: quantmod library: getSymbols("000002.SS")
In-Reply-To: <750589.767.qm@web31403.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Take a look here:
http://www.nabble.com/Newbie-question-on-getSymbols%28%29-in-quantmod-tt21226579.html
You can either set 'auto.assign=FALSE' in the getSymbols call, and do
the assignment to a variable of your choosing with <-
-OR-
You can use ?setSymbolLookup to names from the source (Yahoo) to R
To set auto.assign=FALSE for all future calls you can use setDefaults
from the Defaults library (included by quantmod)
setDefaults(getSymbols, auto.assign=FALSE)
and all future calls will follow that rule.
HTH,
Jeff
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:13 PM, elton wang <ahala2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Jeff and all,
> How can I use quantmod to download stocks with special characters in names?
>
> for instance, SHA:000002 in Google or 000002.SS in Yahoo, with getSymbols("000002.SS"), the output variable name is illegal in R.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> elton
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Jeffrey Ryan
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ia: insight algorithmics
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