Re: [R] Downloading Reuters data from R

Shubha I suspect it may be because it cannot find a dependent DLL. I'll email you off-list and we can work through it. Cheers Rory Rory Winston RBS Global Banking & Markets Office: +44 20 7085 4476 -Original Message- From: Shubha Vishwanath Karanth [mailto:shub...@ambaresearch.com] Se

Re: [R] Downloading Reuters data from R

Thank you very much for this. But since I don't know much of DLL, I am kind of a stuck with how to proceed with 'reuters_ts1.zip'. This zip file contains the 'reuters_ts.dll' file. dyn.load("reuters_ts.dll") generates the error, > dyn.load("Z:\\reuters_ts1\\package\\reuters_ts.dll") Error in inDL

Re: [R] Downloading Reuters data from R

Hi Shubha, I'm replying offlist because although I don't have an answer to your question, i thought i would point you in the direction of Rmetrics (http://www.rmetrics.org/rmetricsPackages.htm) as there might be something in there that may be helpful if you don't get a more direct answer from your

Re: [R] Downloading Reuters data from R

Hi Shubha I have created an extension DLL for downloading time series data from Reuters. You can download it from here: http://www.theresearchkitchen.com/blog/archives/287 There is also a short manual available at the same location: http://www.theresearchkitchen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/200