# This really is meant as a clean way to
# copy and paste line by line to R
# If you paste the whole thing, it sort of loses
# something...
require(quantmod)
getSymbols("YHOO",src="google") # from google finance
getSymbols("GOOG",src="yahoo") # from yahoo finance
getSymbols("DEXUSJP",src="FRED") # FX rates from FRED
getSymbols("XPT/USD",src="Oanda") # Platinum from Oanda Sort of handy, but it gets better... > # Specify lookup parameters, and save for future sessions.
setSymbolLookup(YHOO='google',GOOG='yahoo')
setSymbolLookup(DEXUSJP='FRED')
setSymbolLookup(XPTUSD=list(name="XPT/USD",src="oanda"))
saveSymbolLookup(file="mysymbols.rda")
# new sessions call loadSymbolLookup(file="mysymbols.rda")
getSymbols(c("YHOO","GOOG","DEXUSJP","XPTUSD"))