Gold

How do I get the current price of Gold using R?

I thank the group in advance for their responses.

Bob

Robert,

You can get the GLD data from Yahoo Finance with:

require(quantmod)
getSymbols("GLD", from="1990-01-01")

Or, for the open-interest cross from quandl,

require(IKTrading)
|CME_GC <- ||quandClean||(||"CHRIS/CME_GC"||, start_date=from, 
end_date=to, verbose=verbose) ||#Gold |
Hope this helps.

-Ilya

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Robert Sherry <rsherry8 at comcast.net 
<mailto:rsherry8 at comcast.net>> wrote:


    How do I get the current price of Gold using R?

    I thank the group in advance for their responses.

    Bob

On Feb 15, 2015, at 7:32 PM, Robert Sherry <rsherry8 at comcast.net> wrote:

Thank you for your response. The symbol GLD is not really going to work 
for me because it is my understanding how much gold GLF represents 
varies over time. Therefore,
I thought I would use IKTrading. However, when I try installing it, I 
run into the following problem:

devtools::install_github("IlyaKipnis/IKTrading")
Downloading github repo IlyaKipnis/IKTrading at master
Installing IKTrading
Installing dependencies for IKTrading:
quantstrat, quantstrat
Installing packages into ?C:/Users/Bob/Documents/R/win-library/3.1?
(as ?lib? is unspecified)
"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-31~1.2/bin/x64/R" --vanilla CMD INSTALL  \
"C:/Users/Bob/AppData/Local/Temp/Rtmp0OTNpS/devtools1710548f5fb4/IlyaKipnis-IKTrading-0b4e0e5" 
\
  --library="C:/Users/Bob/Documents/R/win-library/3.1" --install-tests

ERROR: dependency 'quantstrat' is not available for package 'IKTrading'
* removing 'C:/Users/Bob/Documents/R/win-library/3.1/IKTrading'
Error: Command failed (1)
In addition: Warning message:
package ?quantstrat? is not available (for R version 3.1.2)

So, I thought I would install the package quantstrat. However, that does 
not work either.

install.packages("quantstrat")

Installing package into ?C:/Users/Bob/Documents/R/win-library/3.1?
(as ?lib? is unspecified)
Warning message:
package ?quantstrat? is not available (for R version 3.1.2)

I am using version 3.1.2 of R. What am I doing wrong?

Bob

On 2/15/2015 6:11 PM, Ilya Kipnis wrote:
Robert,

You can get the GLD data from Yahoo Finance with:

require(quantmod)
getSymbols("GLD", from="1990-01-01")

Or, for the open-interest cross from quandl,

require(IKTrading)
|CME_GC <- ||quandClean||(||"CHRIS/CME_GC"||, start_date=from, 
end_date=to, verbose=verbose) ||#Gold |
Hope this helps.

-Ilya

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Robert Sherry <rsherry8 at comcast.net 
<mailto:rsherry8 at comcast.net>> wrote:


   How do I get the current price of Gold using R?

   I thank the group in advance for their responses.

   Bob

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