[R-SIG-Finance] Currency data from GOOGLE/Yahoo finance.

[Enrico Schumann]

Try this:

require("quantmod")
INRUSD <- getSymbols("INR=X",src="yahoo", auto.assign = FALSE)


Regards,
Enrico

Am 22.09.2011 10:42, schrieb Wolfgang Wu:
> Ashim,
>
> Unfortunately I couldn't get any data from Yahoo or Google either. I thought you had to do something like getSymbols("CURRENCY:INRUSD",src="google"), but that doesn't work anymore either.
>
> Best solution I can give you is to use the Oanda source for currency data. They do limit you to 500 days of data but you can easily write a loop changing the "from" and "to" times and rbind the xts object together afterwards.
>
> INRUSD<- getSymbols('INR/USD', src='oanda', auto.assign = FALSE)
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Wolfgang Wu
>
>
>
>
> ----- Ursprüngliche Message -----
> Von: Ashim Kapoor<ashimkapoor at gmail.com>
> An: r-sig-finance at r-project.org
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> Gesendet: 8:32 Donnerstag, 22.September 2011
> Betreff: [R-SIG-Finance] Currency data from GOOGLE/Yahoo finance.
>
> Dear R-helpers,
>
> I am trying to use getSymbols to download INR/USD data from yahoo or google
> finance. In each case I 1st list the website and then the R error which I
> get on trying to download the symbol. Could someone please tell me where I
> am wrong?
>
> http://www.google.com/finance?q=inrusd
>
>> getSymbols("inrusd",src="google")
> Error in download.file(paste(google.URL, "q=", Symbols.name, "&startdate=",
> :
>    cannot open URL '
> http://finance.google.com/finance/historical?q=inrusd&startdate=Jan+01,+2007&enddate=Sep+22,+2011&output=csv
> '
> In addition: Warning message:
> In download.file(paste(google.URL, "q=", Symbols.name, "&startdate=",  :
>    cannot open: HTTP status was '400 Bad Request'
>
> http://in.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=USDINR%3DX&ql=1
>
>> getSymbols("USDINR=X",src="yahoo")
> Error in download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m,
> :
>    cannot open URL '
> http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=USDINR=X&a=0&b=01&c=2007&d=8&e=22&f=2011&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=USDINR=X&x=.csv
> '
> In addition: Warning message:
> In download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m,  :
>    unable to resolve 'chart.yahoo.com'
>
> Best Regards,
> Ashim
>
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