getSymbols.yahoo: Download OHLC Data From Yahoo Finance

Description

Downloads Symbols to specified env from ‘finance.yahoo.com’. This method is not to be called directly, instead a call to getSymbols(Symbols,src='yahoo') will in turn call this method. It is documented for the sole purpose of highlighting the arguments accepted, and to serve as a guide to creating additional getSymbols ‘methods’.

Usage

getSymbols.yahoo(Symbols,
                 env,
                 return.class = 'xts',
                 index.class  = 'Date',
                 from = "2007-01-01",
                 to = Sys.Date(),
                 ...,
                 periodicity = "daily",
                 curl.options = list())

Value

A call to getSymbols.yahoo will load into the specified environment one object for each Symbol specified, with class defined by return.class. Presently this may be ts, zoo, xts, or timeSeries.

In the case of xts objects, the indexing will be by Date. This can be altered with the index.class argument. See indexClass for more information on changing index classes.

Arguments

Symbols: a character vector specifying the names of each symbol to be loaded
env: where to create objects. (.GlobalEnv)
return.class: class of returned object
index.class: class of returned object index (xts only)
from: Retrieve data no earlier than this date. (2007-01-01)
to: Retrieve data through this date (Sys.Date())
...: additional parameters
periodicity: periodicity of data to query and return. Must be one of "daily", "weekly", "monthly". ("daily")
curl.options: options passed to curl::handle_setopt

Warning

As of quantmod 0.4-9, getSymbols.yahoo has been patched to work with changes to Yahoo Finance, which also included the following changes to the raw data:

The adjusted close column appears to no longer include dividend adjustments
The close column appears to be adjusted for splits twice
The open, high, and low columns are adjusted for splits, and
The raw data may contain missing values.

Author

Jeffrey A. Ryan

Details

Meant to be called internally by getSymbols (see also).

One of a few currently defined methods for loading data for use with quantmod. Essentially a simple wrapper to the underlying Yahoo! finance site's historical data download.

References

Yahoo Finance: https://finance.yahoo.com

Examples

Run this code

if (FALSE) {
# All 3 getSymbols calls return the same
# MSFT to the global environment
# The last example is what NOT to do!

## Method #1
getSymbols('MSFT',src='yahoo')


## Method #2
setDefaults(getSymbols,src='yahoo')
  # OR
setSymbolLookup(MSFT='yahoo')

getSymbols('MSFT')

#########################################
##  NOT RECOMMENDED!!!
#########################################
## Method #3
getSymbols.yahoo('MSFT',env=globalenv())
}

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