YahooKeystats            package:fImport            R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Imports key statistics from chart.yahoo.com.

_U_s_a_g_e:

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

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

    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. 

_V_a_l_u_e:

     returns a data frame with  key statistics downloaded from yahoo's
     web site.

_N_o_t_e:

     Function 'yohooKeystats' has been renamed from 'keystatsImport'.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Diethelm Wuertz for the Rmetrics R-port.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     ## Not run: 
     ## yahooKeystats -
        yahooKeystats("IBM")
     ## End(Not run)

