There is also a metastock 2 ascii command line utility called
MsCmdLineUtils on the net (opensource) which I have successfully used to
automatically scan metastock folders, convert to ascii, concatenate into
one large file and import into R. You can do all this in R with the use of
the "system" and "file.copy" commands.
-Alexios
On 12/18/2009 6:11 AM, SNV Krishna wrote:
Hi Cedrick,
I can use the convert option in metastock downloader. the problem is
with number. I have securities organized in 8 different folders with
total no > 2000. and every day these securities gets updated with
reuters datalink. using the chain metastock (multiple securities in
different folders) to csv and csv to r-software could be very cumbersome
on a daily basis.
i am looking for better way possible.
many thanks and regards,
krishna
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cedrick W. Johnson"
<cedrick at cedrickjohnson.com>
To: "SNV Krishna" <krishna at primps.com.sg>
Cc: <r-sig-finance at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] direct data download from metastock
You could try exporting the data from Metastock in csv format, then try
?read.csv
SNV Krishna wrote:
Hi All,
is there a way to download data from metastock to R-software. most of
my data is in date,OHLC format downloaded from reuters to metastock
software in my local pc.
many thanks for the help.,
krishna
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