Downloading Data Using Quantmod Package in R

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Once the quantmod package is installed and library is loaded, we can start using the library. We will start by showing some examples of how to download data from the web and load the data into the environment.

Quantmod provides a very powerful function for downloading financial data from the web. This function is called getSymbols. The getSymbols() method sends a request to download and manage data from public sources or local data. It is necessary to pass some parameters within this method to make the desired request. The first argument of this function is a character vector specifying the names of the symbols to be downloaded. Then you can specify the source from which you want to get the data.

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