Mini-tutorial for Quandl: How to access financial data with R

by Joseph Rickert Quandl.com, the open source website for financial data, made rapid progress earlier this year in becoming an R friendly source for financial time series data. Tammer Kamel, Quandl’s founder introduced the site on Revolutions blog in late February as a “search engine” for numerical data and explained how Quandl’s “Q-bot” can take data from almost any publisher that shape it into a standard from. Then in early in March we noted that the quandl package is available in CRAN. Today, I would like to provide a mini-tutorial on accessing the data. Getting time series data couldn't be...