[R] Query on package to use for investment quotes

R. Michael Weylandt michael.weylandt at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 20:41:29 CET 2013


I'd look into the quantmod package.

Cheers,
MW

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Bruce Miller <batsncats at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Diverging from my research based number crunching I am interested to see
> what, if any R packages are out there that can access daily market values of
> investment funds (e.g. using
> http://quote.morningstar.com/fund/f.aspx?t=PDMIX) then store the data value
> (i.e. NAV =$11.56 ) with date retrieved so these can be plotted with ggplot2
> on some regular basis.
>
> A web search turned up a confusing and complex array of R prediction models
> etc. but I am looking for plain vanilla way to retrieve fund values and
> store the values.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bruce
>
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