tm.plugin.webmining (version 1.3)

YahooFinanceSource: Get feed data from Yahoo! Finance.

Description

Yahoo! Finance is a popular site which provides financial news and information. It is a large source for historical price data as well as financial news. Using the typical Yahoo! Finance ticker news items can easily be retrieved. However, the maximum number of items is 20.

Usage

YahooFinanceSource(query, params = list(s = query, region = "US", lang = "en-US"), ...)

Arguments

query

ticker symbols of companies to be searched for, see http://finance.yahoo.com/lookup.

params,

additional query parameters, see http://developer.yahoo.com/rss/

...

additional parameters to WebSource

Value

WebXMLSource

See Also

WebSource

Examples

## Not run: 
# corpus <- Corpus(YahooFinanceSource("MSFT"))
# ## End(Not run)