[R] Getting reliable financial ratios

2012-05-16 Thread Keith Weintraub
Check out this site: http://www.gummy-stuff.org/Yahoo-data.htm It shows how to download a .csv file with the data you might want. Here is an example URL: http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=XOM+BBDb.TO+JNJ+MSFT&f=snd1l1yrr2 The "r2" in the above URL means P/E ratio. You should be able to

[R] Getting reliable financial ratios

2012-05-15 Thread michaelyb
Hello all, I am having some trouble finding a good csv file or even any kind of table with the financial ratios (i.e. P/E ratio, ROI, ROA etc.) from the Internet. I was able to find a good source with poor information. That wouold be Finviz.com. Another option would be creating a XML function loop