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From: r-sig-finance-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-sig-finance-
bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Dirk Eddelbuettel
Sent: June 29, 2011 12:01 PM
To: Fabian Lorenz; r-sig-finance at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Quotes yahoo fin -> db > R > results
On 29 June 2011 at 11:00, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
|
| On 29 June 2011 at 16:45, Fabian Lorenz wrote:
| | I'm trying to collect data automatically from yahoo finance to a
mysql or
| | postgresql for further R data process.
| |
| | Anybody knows how about?
|
| I can help with the first part in a fully automated fashion, see
|
| http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/beancounter.hyml
Sorry: http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/beancounter.html
Dirk
| Key features:
|
| - automated setup for either MySQL, Postgresql, SQLite or ODBC:
creates the
| schema, loads sample data etc (but you still need to take care of
the
| backend and things like ODBC drivers)
|
| - cross-platform for Windows, OS X, Linux
|
| - Written in Perl, mostly around 1999 to 2001; I still maintain it
in the
| sense of fixing bugs, I have not added features in years
|
| - I (and others) use it for automated data download given a
portfolio; for
| me it then creates a daily email with daily PNL and Risk Estimates
for my
| little retail portfolios; "growing" the time series database is a
(nice
| and desired) side-effect
|
| - Can also backpopulate for assets where Yahoo offers history (ie
most
| stocks, no options, no fx)
|
| - Is used as a backend for some (non-R) charting software
|
| I have been meaning to
|
| a) rewrite it in R and/or
|
| b) write R analysis modules
|
| but I have a "writer's block" as I know so much that could be done
leveraging
| things like PortfolioAnalytics and PerformanceAnalytics that I still
haven't
| done it yet. Would make a great student project for an investment
analysis
| with R class ...
|
| Hope this helps, feel free to ping me off-list if interested.
|
| Dirk
|
| --
| Gauss once played himself in a zero-sum game and won $50.
| -- #11 at http://www.gaussfacts.com
--
Gauss once played himself in a zero-sum game and won $50.
-- #11 at http://www.gaussfacts.com