On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 06:43:31AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> On 11 June 2009 at 10:07, [email protected] wrote:
> | I am having problem adding the currency "SEK" (Swedish Kroner) to
> | beancounter.
> |
> | - I added the stock HEXA-B.ST quoted on the Stockholm exchange
> | - I then ran the command "beancounter update"
> | - I then ran the command "beancounter --extrafx SEK"
> | - I then ran the command "beancounter fxbackpopulate SEK"
> |
> | and various permutations and combinations of the above with and without
> | dates
> |
> | The only error message I get is
> | ** Ignoring SEK which is not currently known to the internal tables
> |
> | If I check the currency tables then the only currencies shown are EUR
> | and CAD.
> |
> | Question: how do I add SEK (and a couple of other currencies)?
>
> It's messy. I think the Yahoo interface is broken, but I never sat down and
> wrote something real good to replace it.
>
> I have some code I use that goes to OandA.com, but last I checked, that site
> also had some shortcomings. I think mostly for testing I currently follow
> these three:
>
> beancounter=# select distinct currency from fxprices where date >=
> '2009-06-01';
> currency
> ----------
> AUD
> CAD
> EUR
> (3 rows)
>
> If you have some time and a little knowledge of Perl and SQL we could try to
> fix things up a little.
VERY little knowledge of PERL and SQL but willing to learn
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