Re: [R] Downloading Reuters data from R

2008-12-12 Thread Shubha Vishwanath Karanth
...@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Downloading Reuters data from R Hi R, Can we download Reuters (3000 Xtra) data from R? Does ODBC package help me in this? Or otherwise, is there a way to extract daily closing prices data of Reuters from R? Thank you very much, Shubha This e-mail may contain confidential

Re: [R] Downloading Reuters data from R

2008-12-12 Thread Rory.WINSTON
[mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Shubha Vishwanath Karanth Sent: 11 December 2008 07:41 To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Downloading Reuters data from R Hi R, Can we download Reuters (3000 Xtra) data from R? Does ODBC package help me in this? Or otherwise, is there a way

[R] Downloading Reuters data from R

2008-12-11 Thread Shubha Vishwanath Karanth
Hi R, Can we download Reuters (3000 Xtra) data from R? Does ODBC package help me in this? Or otherwise, is there a way to extract daily closing prices data of Reuters from R? Thank you very much, Shubha This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged i...{{dropped:13}}

Re: [R] Downloading Reuters data from R

2008-12-11 Thread Rory.WINSTON
Of Shubha Vishwanath Karanth Sent: 11 December 2008 07:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] Downloading Reuters data from R Hi R, Can we download Reuters (3000 Xtra) data from R? Does ODBC package help me in this? Or otherwise, is there a way to extract daily closing prices data of Reuters

Re: [R] Downloading Reuters data from R

2008-12-11 Thread Tony Breyal
Hi Shubha, I'm replying offlist because although I don't have an answer to your question, i thought i would point you in the direction of Rmetrics (http://www.rmetrics.org/rmetricsPackages.htm) as there might be something in there that may be helpful if you don't get a more direct answer from