Newbie question on getSymbols() in quantmod

An alternate approach uses setSymbolLookup

setSymbolLookup(HSBC=list(src='yahoo', name="0005.HK"))

You can put this in a start up file for future R sessions.  See ?setSymbolLookup
getSymbols("HSBC")
[1] "HSBC"
str(HSBC)
An 'xts' object from 2007-01-01 to 2008-12-29 containing:
  Data: num [1:510, 1:6] 142 143 144 145 144 ...
 - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
  ..$ : NULL
  ..$ : chr [1:6] "0005.HK.Open" "0005.HK.High" "0005.HK.Low"
"0005.HK.Close" ...
  Indexed by objects of class: [Date]
   xts Attributes:
List of 2
 $ src    : chr "yahoo"
 $ updated: POSIXct[1:1], format: "2008-12-31 05:02:43"

HTH
Jeff
Try:

HSBC <- getSymbols("0005.HK",src="yahoo", auto.assign=FALSE)

Brian

On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 10:58 +0800, L.-Y. Hin wrote:
Dear gurus,

I am learning the quantmod library, and trying to download
the equity series for HSBC from yahoo.

I checked from yahoo finance that the symbol is 0005.HK,
and then I used

library(quantmod)
getSymbols("0005.HK",src="yahoo")
[1] "0005.HK"
candleChart(0005.HK)
Error: unexpected symbol in "candleChart(0005.HK"
chartSeries(0005.HK)
Error: unexpected symbol in "chartSeries(0005.HK"
Cl(0005.HK)
Error: unexpected symbol in "Cl(0005.HK"

It seems like probably no data has been loaded by the
approach above.

However, the same scripts work for NYSE equities like
getSymbols("A",src="yahoo")
[1] "A"
chartSeries(A)
length(Cl(A))   #To check whether OHLC data has been loaded
[1] 503

I suspect the problem is in the way I tried to load 0005.HK....

I'll be very grateful for your kind advice.

Many thanks

Lin

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Newbie question on getSymbols() in quantmod

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