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Old Jimma from the Old Country
Old Jimma from the Old Country

Reputation: 11

how do I get data on BRK.B that is listed on the NYSE using quantmod or another function?

I want to get data on Birkshire-Hathaway (BRK.B) that is listed on the NYSE.

It seems that I can't use getSymbols because that function allows my to get data from yahoo finance, and BRK.B is not listed on yahoo finance.

How do I get data on BRK.B?

Thanks! Old

I tried getSymbols("BRK.B")

I hoped for data on Berkshire Hathaway.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 202

Answers (1)

Joshua Ulrich
Joshua Ulrich

Reputation: 176718

The ticker is "BRK-B" on Yahoo. You can import it using

brk.b <- getSymbols("BRK-B", auto.assign = FALSE)

In this case, I strongly recommend using auto.assign = FALSE and assigning the output to a value instead of letting getSymbols() create an object for you.

Otherwise getSymbols() will create an object named BRK-B which can be confusing to use, because you will always have to use backticks to access it. For example:

#
# not recommended!
#
quantmod::getSymbols("BRK-B")
## [1] "BRK-B"
head(BRK-B)
## Error: object 'BRK' not found
head(`BRK-B`)
##            BRK-B.Open BRK-B.High BRK-B.Low BRK-B.Close BRK-B.Volume BRK-B.Adjusted
## 2007-01-03      73.56      73.72     72.60       72.86      1385000          72.86
## 2007-01-04      72.86      72.94     72.06       72.20      1070000          72.20
## 2007-01-05      72.66      72.66     71.26       71.56       930000          71.56
## 2007-01-08      71.82      71.90     71.50       71.72       760000          71.72
## 2007-01-09      71.72      73.04     71.66       73.00       610000          73.00
## 2007-01-10      73.00      73.18     72.30       73.02       775000          73.02

Upvotes: 1

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