Its function and yahoo

Hi,

Yes, so maybe time for someone else to become immortal by supplying
a patch

I have done it ... so I am immortal :)
This is a still a modified version of the original tseries version ..
so I am still partly immortal,

see file attached.
In addition to adjustements,
I have splitted the function in two parts:
1. reading quotes from local file
2. downloading from

I work a lot with R,
both for consulting services for hedge Funds and teaching.
see my site
http://www.yats.com/

unfortunately most of R teaching stuff are in french.

Daniel HERLEMONT
Associate Professor of Finance
Ecole Sup?rieure d'Ing?nieurs L?onard de Vinci (ESILV)
D?partement Math?matique et Ing?nierie Financi?re
92916 PARIS LA DEFENSE CEDEX

YATS
http://www.yats.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dirk Eddelbuettel" <edd@debian.org>
To: "BBands" <bbands@gmail.com>
Cc: <R-sig-finance@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 2:12 AM
Subject: Re: [R-sig-finance] Its function and yahoo

On 29 April 2005 at 15:44, BBands wrote:
| For some reason priceIts does not handle the "Adj. Close" field.
|
| However, tseries will: get.hist.quote("ge", quote=c("Cl", "Ad"))
|
| I recently contributed a tseires patch that also allows it to handle
| daily, weekly or monthly compression: get.hist.quote("ge",
| compression="w", quote=c("Cl", "Ad"))
|
| The difference between the "Close" and the "Adj. Close*" fields is far
| more than just dividends, splits are a major factor. Please note that
| Yahoo! only split adjusts the "Adj. Close*" field, you'll have to back
| into an adjustment for the other fields if needed.

Yes, so maybe time for someone else to become immortal by supplying a
patch
to priceIts based on what you had designed for get.hist.quotes.

Dirk

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