get.hist.quote(tseries) | R Documentation |
Download historical financial data from a given data provider over the WWW.
get.hist.quote (instrument = "^gdax", start, end, quote = c("Open", "High", "Low", "Close"), provider = "yahoo", method = c("auto", "wget", "lynx"))
instrument |
the name of the quote symbol to download. See the web page of the data provider for information about the quote symbols. |
start, end |
strings representing the start and end date
of the period to download. The format is "mm dd yyyy" .
Default values are "1 2 1991" and yesterday. |
quote |
download opening, high, low, or closing quotes? |
provider |
the name of the data provider. Currently implemented
is "yahoo" . See http://quote.yahoo.com/ for more
information. |
method |
tool to be used for downloading the data. Currently
download methods "auto" , "wget" , and "lynx"
are available. |
A time series containing the data in physical time, i.e., weekends,
holidays, and missing days are filled with NA
s. The time scale
is given in Julian dates.
A. Trapletti
ts
, chron
, http://quote.yahoo.com/
x <- get.hist.quote (instrument = "^spc", start = "1 1 1998", quote = "Close") plot (x)