yahoo.get.hist.quote {UsingR} | R Documentation

## Download stock data from Yahoo!

### Description

Downloads stock data from Yahoo!

### Usage

    yahoo.get.hist.quote(instrument = "^gspc", destfile = paste(instrument, ".csv", sep = ""), start, end, quote = c("Open", "High", "Low", "Close"), adjusted = TRUE, download = TRUE, origin = "1970-01-01", compression = "d")

### Arguments

`instrument` | Ticker symbol as character string.
`destfile` | Temporary file for storage
`start` | Date to start. Specified as "2005-12-31"
`end` | Date to end
`quote` | Any/All of "Open", "High", "Low", "Close"
`adjusted` | Adjust for stock splits, dividends. Defaults to TRUE
`download` | Download the data
`origin` | Dates are recorded in the number of days since the origin. A value of "1970-01-01" is the default. This was changed from "1899-12-30".
`compression` |

### Details

Goes to chart.yahoo.com and downloads the stock data. By default returns a multiple time series of class mts with missing days padded by NAs.

### Value

A multiple time series with time measureing the number of days since the value specified to origin.

### Author(s)

Daniel Herlemont <dherlemont@yats.com>

### References

This function was found on the mailling list for R-SIG finance

### See Also

yahoo.get.hist.quote in the tseries package

### Examples

[Package UsingR version 0.1-4 Index]