Yes, I'm willing to pay for it, but I would like to get it automatically into a format I can parse and use, not even sure where that exists at the moment. (Doesn't Yahoo Finance get their data from CSI?) Ralph Vince
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:04 PM, G See <gsee...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Brian G. Peterson <br...@braverock.com> > wrote: >> The only way I know of to get out of maintaining it by hand is to pay for >> data. >> >> On the GUI side, Bloomberg, Factset, and Reuters have all been mentioned >> already I think. Rbbg of course talks to Bloomberg. >> >> On the other vendor side, I think Interactive Brokers has this data, and it >> may be available via the IBrokers package if it is available via the IB API. >> Additional vendors, such as CSIdata, tickdata.com, Reuters, CRSP, Telekurs, >> etc all sell this data, at varying prices and quality. > > Interactive Brokers does provide an "Upcoming Dividend Schedule" for > stocks, but it is a rough estimate that is often wrong. Also, I don't > think you can get it from their API (although if someone knows how, > please speak up). I think you have to go into the GUI, right-click a > stock and select Dividend Schedule. > > -Garrett > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Finance@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance > -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. > -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions > should go. _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Finance@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions should go.
