Re: [R-SIG-Finance] TZs

2011-10-07 Thread Matti Zemack
Hi all, There is a short explanation of the law suite on the wikipedia page (History-); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database Rgds, Matti Zemack, Stockholm, Sweden On 7 okt 2011, at 12.00, r-sig-finance-requ...@r-project.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Jeffrey Ryan

Re: [R-SIG-Finance] TZ database

2011-10-07 Thread Steve Jaffe
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/07/unix_time_zone_database_destroyed/ ___ R-SIG-Finance@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. -- Also note

Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Speed of processing a bdh call using Rbloomberg

2011-10-07 Thread Aidan Corcoran
Dear John, yes it does seem to be a problem with my network connection. Thanks for your help, and for the great package! Aidan On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:42 PM, John Laing john.la...@gmail.com wrote: Aidan, Sorry for the delayed response. Your code runs pretty quickly for me:

Re: [R-SIG-Finance] TZs

2011-10-07 Thread Andrew Miller
Hello Everybody, In relation to this subject, does anybody know the protection status on historical financial quote data (stocks, futures) and/or the dissemination of graphs/analyses based off such data? I thought it would fall in the public domain as the TZ data does, but it seems that I am

[R-SIG-Finance] Data (Was: TZs)

2011-10-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 7 October 2011 at 10:41, Brian G. Peterson wrote: | On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 09:48 -0500, Andrew Miller wrote: | In relation to this subject, does anybody know the protection status on | historical financial quote data (stocks, futures) and/or the dissemination | of graphs/analyses based off

Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Data (Was: TZs)

2011-10-07 Thread Brian G. Peterson
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 11:12 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Google/Yahoo actually pay the exchanges. That came up when Google started to show real-time data in an Ajax-y form (that you can easily program against) and some news stories at the time reported what deal Google had struck with the

Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Data (Was: TZs)

2011-10-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 7 October 2011 at 12:05, Brian G. Peterson wrote: | On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 11:12 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | Google/Yahoo actually pay the exchanges. That came up when Google | started to show real-time data in an Ajax-y form (that you can easily | program against) and some news

Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Data (Was: TZs)

2011-10-07 Thread Ulrich Staudinger
Am 07.10.2011 19:44, schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: Andrew also asked about the dissemination of derived analysis (graphs etc). which I think that is fine because that is your work rather that their raw data. IANAL. Actually that's not entirely the best answer as this again depends on the data

Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Data (Was: TZs)

2011-10-07 Thread Andrew Miller
Thank you for all of your responses, they have helped a lot. One thing that interests me is how much analysis would have to be done to distribute the graphs? For example, would posting a simple graph of the price history, or the spread between two futures be acceptable without license? Or would

Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Data (Was: TZs)

2011-10-07 Thread Daniel Cegiełka
interesting studies: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111006/11532316235/astrolabe-claims-it-holds-copyright-timezone-data-sues-maintainers-public-timezone-database.shtml http://www.thedailyparker.com/PermaLink,guid,c5f28bae-4b9c-41ea-b7b7-8891ad63c938.aspx best, daniel 2011/10/7 Andrew

Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Data (Was: TZs)

2011-10-07 Thread Jeffrey Ryan
Posting simple graphs, even raw data is *likely* to be okay for three reasons: 1) No one will care. Yahoo, CME, etc would gain little in preventing this or tracking it. 2) No one could tell were your data comes from anyway - especially if it is graph. 3) Fair Use of course, I am not a lawyer...