Help on getSymbols
Thanks, I got it working!, Dan
On Apr 9, 2016, at 3:28 PM, Paul Teetor <paulteetor at yahoo.com> wrote:
I could be wrong, but I think Josh meant to say: Either set Symbols=userInput and forgo the for loop, or keep the for loop and set Symbols=userInput[i]. Paul Teetor, Elgin, IL USA http://quantdevel.com/public
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From: Joshua Ulrich <josh.m.ulrich at gmail.com>
To: Dan Mack <dmack10 at verizon.net>
Cc: r-sig-finance <r-sig-finance at r-project.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 9, 2016 7:42 AM
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Help on getSymbols
On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 7:39 AM, Dan Mack <dmack10 at verizon.net> wrote:
Josh, I have been using the get symbols to bull data from Yahoo via the following code and generally works well.
FromDate = "2002-05-24"
ToDate = "2016-03-17"
userInput=c("SHW","ABC","LEN","PCLN","HAR","ETN","RRC","PNR","MO","MAT","SNDK","EW","SPLS","AGN","F","MMM",
"SWK","EA","KSU","MLM","FCX","XRAY","BDX","DOW","LUK","PHM","TMO","DHI","COH","HOT","STZ","LOW","ADS?,
"SWN","REGN","CSC","VFC","CI","HPQ","CA","TE","PWR","RF","BAX")
for (i in userInput)
{
getSymbols(Symbols=userInput, src="yahoo", from = FromDate, to = ToDate, auto.assign=TRUE, return.class="data.frame")
}
You're downloading all symbols in each iteration of your for loop.
Either set Symbols=userInput and forgo the for loop, or keep the for
loop and set Symbols=i.
My issue is that many times it takes a really long time to complete, like upwards to 20-30 minutes. Sometimes the process terminate with an error message. I am trying to replicate it, but no luck right now it is just running. The error indicated something about a header being off.
I have a hunch that something is not recognizing the download has completed and can?t terminate the call.
I do notice that when I manually stop the get symbols call after a short time ( 1-2 minutes) all of my data I asked for will be in the global environment.
This is preventing some automation I would like to do for my models.
Do you have any suggestion on what could be causing this or any solutions?
Thanks Dan
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