From e2aa86813d9ac2cfeb1abe1ad3f699507bae5acb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillaume Horel <guillaume.horel@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:16:56 -0400
Subject: Better fix for the "WAT" bug

---
 getYahooData.R | 93 ----------------------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 93 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 getYahooData.R

(limited to 'getYahooData.R')

diff --git a/getYahooData.R b/getYahooData.R
deleted file mode 100644
index a758ae1..0000000
--- a/getYahooData.R
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,93 +0,0 @@
-getYahooData<-function (symbol, start, end, freq = "daily", type = "price", adjust = TRUE, quiet = FALSE) 
-{
-    if (missing(start)) {
-        beg <- as.POSIXlt("1900-01-01")
-    }
-    else {
-        beg <- as.POSIXlt(as.Date(as.character(start), "%Y%m%d"))
-    }
-    if (missing(end)) {
-        end <- as.POSIXlt(Sys.Date())
-    }
-    else {
-        end <- as.POSIXlt(as.Date(as.character(end), "%Y%m%d"))
-    }
-    if (beg > end) 
-        stop("Start date must be before end date.")
-    if (beg > as.POSIXlt(Sys.Date())) 
-        stop("Start date is after today's date.")
-    freq <- match.arg(freq, c("daily", "weekly", "monthly"))
-    type <- match.arg(type, c("price", "split"))
-    if (type == "price") {
-        freq.url <- substr(freq, 1, 1)
-    }
-    else {
-        freq.url <- "v"
-        if (freq != "daily" & !quiet) 
-            message("Only freq=\"daily\" data available for type=\"split\".\n", "Setting freq=\"daily\"...")
-    }
-    flush.console()
-    if (type == "price") {
-        if (adjust) {
-            if (freq == "daily") {
-                ohlc <- getYahooData(symbol, start, freq = "daily", type = "price", adjust = FALSE, quiet = TRUE)
-                divspl <- getYahooData(symbol, start, freq = "daily", type = "split", adjust = FALSE, quiet = TRUE)
-                ohlc <- merge(ohlc, divspl, all = TRUE)
-                if (NROW(divspl) != 0) {
-                  if(!all(is.na(ohlc[is.na(ohlc[,"Close"]),"Split"]))){
-                    cat("ugly WAT fix!\n")
-                    ohlc[162,"Close"] <- 83.75
-                  }
-                  adj <- adjRatios(ohlc[, "Split"], ohlc[, "Div"], ohlc[, "Close"])
-                  s.ratio <- adj[, 1]
-                  d.ratio <- adj[, 2]
-                  cn <- colnames(ohlc)
-                  ohlc <- cbind(ohlc, ohlc[, "Close"])
-                  colnames(ohlc) <- c(cn, "Unadj.Close")
-                  ohlc[time(ohlc[, "Open"] * d.ratio * s.ratio), "Open"] <- ohlc[, "Open"] * d.ratio * s.ratio
-                  ohlc[time(ohlc[, "High"] * d.ratio * s.ratio), "High"] <- ohlc[, "High"] * d.ratio * s.ratio
-                  ohlc[time(ohlc[, "Low"] * d.ratio * s.ratio), "Low"] <- ohlc[, "Low"] * d.ratio * s.ratio
-                  ohlc[time(ohlc[, "Close"] * d.ratio * s.ratio), "Close"] <- ohlc[, "Close"] * d.ratio * s.ratio
-                  ohlc[time(ohlc[, "Volume"] * (1/d.ratio)), "Volume"] <- ohlc[, "Volume"] * (1/d.ratio)
-                  ohlc <- ohlc[, c("Open", "High", "Low", "Close", "Volume", "Unadj.Close", "Div", "Split", "Adj.Div")]
-                }
-            }
-            else stop("Only freq=\"daily\" adjusted data is currently supported.")
-        }
-        else {
-            url <- paste("http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=", symbol, "&a=", beg$mon, "&b=", beg$mday, "&c=", beg$year + 1900, "&d=", end$mon, "&e=", end$mday, "&f=", end$year + 1900, "&g=", freq.url, "&ignore=.csv",sep = "")
-            ohlc <- read.table(url, header = TRUE, sep = ",")
-            ohlc[, "Adj.Close"] <- NULL
-            ohlc <- ohlc[order(ohlc[, "Date"]), ]
-            ohlc <- xts(ohlc[, -1], as.POSIXct(as.character(ohlc[, 1])))
-        }
-    }
-    else {
-        if (!quiet) 
-            message("Unadjusted and adjusted dividend data are always returned.")
-        url <- paste("http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/x?s=", symbol, "&a=", beg$mon, "&b=", beg$mday, "&c=", beg$year + 1900, "&d=", end$mon, "&e=", end$mday, "&f=", end$year + 1900, "&g=", freq.url, "&y=0&z=30000", sep = "")
-        ohlc <- read.table(url, skip = 1, sep = ",", fill = TRUE, as.is = TRUE)
-        div <- data.frame(Date = ohlc[ohlc[, "V1"] == "DIVIDEND", "V2"], Adj.Div = as.numeric(ohlc[ohlc[, "V1"] == "DIVIDEND", "V3"]), stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
-        spl <- data.frame(Date = ohlc[ohlc[, "V1"] == "SPLIT", "V2"], Split = as.character(ohlc[ohlc[, "V1"] == "SPLIT", "V3"]), stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
-        ohlc <- merge(div, spl, by.col = "Date", all = TRUE)
-        if (NROW(ohlc) == 0) 
-            return(ohlc)
-        ohlc[, "Date"] <- as.Date(as.character(ohlc[, "Date"]), "%Y%m%d")
-        ohlc[, "Split"] <- sub(":", "/", ohlc[, "Split"])
-        ohlc[, "Split"] <- 1/sapply(parse(text = ohlc[, "Split"]), eval)
-        ohlc <- ohlc[order(ohlc[, 1]), ]
-        ohlc <- xts(ohlc[, -1], as.POSIXct(as.character(ohlc[, 1])))
-        if (all(is.na(ohlc[, "Split"]))) {
-            s.ratio <- rep(1, NROW(ohlc))
-        }
-        else {
-            s.ratio <- adjRatios(split = ohlc[, "Split"])[, 1]
-        }
-        ohlc <- cbind(ohlc, ohlc[, "Adj.Div"] * (1/s.ratio))
-        colnames(ohlc)[3] <- "Div"
-        ohlc[, "Split"] <- as.numeric(ohlc[, "Split"])
-        ohlc <- ohlc[, c("Div", "Split", "Adj.Div")]
-    }
-    ohlc <- ohlc[paste(beg, end, sep = "/"), ]
-    return(ohlc)
-}
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