getQuote: Download Current Stock Quote

Description

Fetch current stock quote(s) from specified source. At present this only handle sourcing quotes from Yahoo Finance, but it will be extended to additional sources over time.

Usage

getQuote(Symbols, src = "yahoo", what = standardQuote(), ...)
standardQuote(src="yahoo")
yahooQF(names)

Arguments

Symbols

character string of symbols, seperated by semi-colons

src

source of data (only yahoo is implemented)

what

what should be retrieved

names

which data should be retrieved

...

currently unused

Value

A maximum of 200 symbols may be requested per call to Yahoo!, and all requested will be returned in one data.frame object.
getQuote returns a data frame with rows matching the number of Symbols requested, and the columns matching the requested columns.
The what argument allows for specific data to be requested from yahoo, using Yahoo!'s formatting string. A list and interactive selection tool can be seen with yahooQF.
standardQuote currently only applied to Yahoo! data, and returns an object of class quoteFormat, for use within the getQuote function.

References

Yahoo! Finance finance.yahoo.com gummy-stuff.org www.gummy-stuff.org/Yahoo-data.htm

Examples

Run this code

getQuote("AAPL")
getQuote("QQQQ;SPY;^VXN",what=yahooQF(c("Bid","Ask")))
standardQuote()
yahooFQ()