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How to get name of a ticker using Quantmod/R

7 messages · George Kumar, Daniel Cegiełka, G See

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George Kumar
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I'd like a way to get name of a stock/fund ticker using quantmod or other R
packages, but so far I have not been able to find one. I tried using
getSymbols etc. Let me know a way to do it. Thanks and sorry if this has
been asked before, if so please point me the link.

Regards.
George

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George Kumar
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Just to add more information to my original post.

Suppose I have a ticker like CSCO or a mutual fund like AAUTX

I would like to be able to get the full name of the companies using some
R/quantmod package.

For CSCO -- Cisco Systems, Inc.
for AAUTX - Thrivent Large Cap Value A 


Thanks again.
George

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George Kumar
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Thanks Daniel. But my problem is not to hold the full name, but rather a way
to get the mapping for ticker to the full name. I have some webform where
people would enter tickers, and I'd like to go fetch them the full name for
the entity the ticker represents, be it a company or a fund or something
else.

Best Regards.
George.

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George Kumar
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I tried using the following scipt

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Args <- commandArgs()      # retrieve cmdline args
ticker <- as.character(Args[5])
url =
paste("http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=",ticker,"&f=n",sep="")
x<- read.table(url)
compname=x[1,]
compname=as.character(compname)
cat("Comp name is ",compname, "\n")

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cat get_name_from_yahoo.R |  R --vanilla --slave --args FIIAX
Output: FIDELITY ADVISOR

So even this does not give the full name that one sees in yahoo finance web
page - Fidelity Advisor Mid Cap II A 

Thanks a lot for your replies.
George



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