FinData provider Xiginte and R
me at censix.com wrote:
Hi to the list
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 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
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