> 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 possibility of getting a wide range of other information about > the security > as well. I see there is a package httpRequest that should allow me to > retrieve the webpage with an posted security symbol. I looked at package > XML for processing the returned webpage, but it didn't work on an > example *.asp file that I tried. I also checked out the nascent package > fBasics, > but I didn't find what I'm looking for. I know there is a Perl module > Finance::Quote; > 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. > > Thanks, > Scott Waichler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *********************************************************************** >
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