Hi,
Brian G. Peterson wrote:
From following the list discussions I get that there are R packages
for
pulling Bloomberg and LIM(?) data into R. Does anybody know if there is
such a package for Xignite.com ? (I looked at xignite because they
provide
the financial data that is used in wolframalpha.com. I like their "you
only pay what you use" pricing model)
http://www.xignite.com/Support/GettingStarted.aspx
If not, does anyone think that creating one would be a straightforward
thing, i.e. could such a package be derived from one of the existing
packages fairly quickly?
Soren,
There's nothing available that I'm aware of.
The Xignite.com API is a SOAP/WSDL web service.
To integrate to R, you could try two main approaches that I would try n
the following order:
- There are a couple of R/SOAP integration projects out there. You could
test and potentially use one of these as a 'Requires' for your Xignite
integration.
- use some other SOAP client libraries in another language, and link
that into your package.
I know that the biocep folks have done some work in SOAP/WSDL to
integrate to Eucalyptus and Amazon's web services, so further discussion
IIRC Amazon's web services are RESTful (not SOAP based);
for this the R packages RCurl (in combination with XML
or rjson/RJSONIO)) can be used.
Best,
Tobias
on the issues you have trying to develop some integration might be
better served on a more general R list, as web services development is
not finance specific (though I realize that the data is).
Regards,
- Brian