[R-SIG-Finance] Problem with TTR - stockSymbols

Fri Aug 12 15:16:25 CEST 2011

Owe,

nasdaq.com changed the format of the file stockSymbols() parses.  I've
patched on R-Forge, but have not pushed it to CRAN yet.  You can
install TTR from R-Forge via:

R> install.packages("TTR", repos="http://r-forge.r-project.org")

Best,
--
Joshua Ulrich  |  FOSS Trading: www.fosstrading.com

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Owe Jessen <list at econinfo.de> wrote:
> Hi all. I have a problem using stockSymbols from TTR, which is rather
> garbled output. Using the example of
> require("TTR")
>
> nyse.symbols<- stockSymbols("NYSE")
>
>
>
> results in the warning
>
>
>
> Fetching NYSE symbols...
> Warnmeldung:
> In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote,  :
>   cols = 3 != length(data) = 4
>
>
>
> I get the following output
>
>
>
> head(nyse.symbols)
>
>
>                                                                                                                                                                   Name
> 1<html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml>
> 2<head>
> 4<meta name=keywords content=company list, nasdaq company list, nyse company list, amex company list />
> 5<meta name=description content=Use the NASDAQ.com Company List tool to find lists of NASDAQ, NYSE, and AMEX listed securities by name, region, industry and more. />
> 6<meta name=robots content=index,follow />
> 7<link rel=canonical href=http://www.nasdaq.com/screening/company-list.aspx />
>   Symbol MarketCap Exchange
> 1                      NYSE
> 2                      NYSE
> 4                      NYSE
> 5                      NYSE
> 6                      NYSE
> 7                      NYSE
>
>
>
>>  str(nyse.symbols)
> 'data.frame':   1437 obs. of  4 variables:
>  $ Name     : chr  "<html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml>""<head>""<meta name=keywords content=company list, nasdaq company list, nyse company list, amex company list />""<meta name=description content=Use the NASDAQ.com Company List tool to find lists of NASDAQ, NYSE, and AMEX listed securities b"| __truncated__ ...
>  $ Symbol   : chr  "" "" "" "" ...
>  $ MarketCap: chr  "" "" "" "" ...
>  $ Exchange : chr  "NYSE" "NYSE" "NYSE" "NYSE" ...
>
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
>
> TIA
>
>
> Owe
>
>
>
> --
> Owe Jessen
> Nettelbeckstr. 5
> 24105 Kiel
> post at owejessen.de
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