On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Scott Waichler wrote:
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> > should I go that route and avoid trying to parse webpages? I was hoping
> > to learn
> > how to extract information from webpages in general so I could apply the
> > techniques
> > for other purposes too.
> >
>From the Introduction to R
Check out get.hist.quote in package tseries.
Scott Waichler verizon.net> writes:
:
: > Hello R Community,
: >
: > I would like to be able to download recent (yesterday's close is fine)
: > stock and
: > mutual fund prices from somewhere and use them for a personal finance
: > project.
: > I
> Hello R Community,
>
> I would like to be able to download recent (yesterday's close is fine)
> stock and
> mutual fund prices from somewhere and use them for a personal finance
> project.
> Ideally, I would do this at a website of my choosing (e.g.
> morningstar.com) and
> have the possibilit
