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fImport (version 2110.79)

YahooBriefing: Import Briefings from Yahoo

Description

Imports briefings from chart.yahoo.com.

Usage

yahooBriefing(query, file = "tempfile", source = NULL, save = FALSE, 
    try = TRUE)

Arguments

file
a character string with filename, usually having extension ".csv", where to save the downloaded data.
query
a character string, denoting the location of the data at the web site.
save
a logical value, if set to TRUE the downloaded data file will be stored under the path and file name specified by the string file. By default FALSE.
source
a character string setting the URL of the source. If NULL, then the URL will be set automatically to its default value.
try
a logical value, if set to TRUE the Internet access will be checked.

Value

  • returns a data frame with briefings downloaded from yahoo's web site.

Examples

Run this code
## yahooBriefing -
   yahooBriefing("IBM")

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