Getting historical stock prices from irregular tickers in Quantmod package
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Berk Orbay <berkorbay at 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, -- Joshua Ulrich | about.me/joshuaulrich FOSS Trading | www.fosstrading.com