Re: [R] Parsing Google Finance page data?

FWIW, this is the kludge I came up with. The idea is that I only know the name of the company and not the ticker/exchange. So the following admittedly doesn't work in all cases (e.g. "Time Warner"). So if anyone alternatively knows how to return a list of tickers/exchanges of companies match

[R] Parsing Google Finance page data?

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can point me to code to parse data on Google Finance pages, i.e. parse the results of a URL request such as this http://www.google.com/finance?q=apple I know how to return the contents of the page; it's figuring out the best tools to parse it that I'm interested i

[R] Oracle Approximating Shrinkage in R?

Hi, Can anyone point me to an implementation in R of the oracle approximating shrinkage technique for covariance matrices? Rseek, Google, etc. aren't turning anything up for me. Thanks in advance, Matt Considine __ R-help@r-project.org ma

[R] Data from Stock and Watson or DAgostino papers?

Hello, I am interested in looking at the dataset used by Stock and Watson in their "Macroeconomic Forecasting Using Diffusion Indexes (J. of Business and Econ. Statistics, April 2002, pp158-161) or the set used by D'Agostino and Giannone "Comparing Alternative Predictors [...]"(October 2006) i

[R] Reading MINE output into a matrix

I've benefited from this list with input on how to build up a symmetrical matrix. The purpose of that query was to work with the output from the MINE routine posted at www.exploredata.net To the extent it helps others, here is the script that I was working on an which turns a given MINE outpu

Re: [R] Help creating a symmetric matrix?

Thank you all for your help and best wishes for the holiday season. Matt Considine On 12/24/2011 8:38 AM, William Revelle wrote: Dear Matt, Sarah and Rui, To answer the original question for creating a symmetric matrix v<-c(0.33740, 0.26657, 0.23388, 0.23122, 0.21476, 0.20829, 0.20

[R] Help creating a symmetric matrix?

Hi, I am trying to work with the output of the MINE analysis routine found at http://www.exploredata.net Specifically, I am trying to read the results into a matrix (ideally an n x n x 6 matrix, but I'll settle right now for getting one column into a matrix.) The problem I have is not knowin