Re: [R] quantmod Some Single Letter Tickers Not getFin

2011-03-19 Thread Joshua Ulrich
Hi John, The financial statement pages exist, but they require the exchange to be specified. For example: http://www.google.com/finance?fstype=ii&q=NYSE:GE and http://www.google.com/finance?fstype=ii&q=GE take you to the same page, but http://www.google.com/finance?fstype=ii&q=NYSE:F works, while

[R] quantmod Some Single Letter Tickers Not getFin

2011-03-17 Thread Sparks, John James
Hi, I have been learning the quantmod package over the last several days. I went to check some of my data pulls against other sources and was surprised to find that a few tickers that have single characters do not successfully scrape from Google Finance using getFin(). Particularly require(quan