Country-Specific Stock Data with quantmod

Article Quant Q&A · Author: user19265

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The document discusses whether quantmod can retrieve all equities for a particular country by matching a market suffix, using Finnish listings as the example. The responses explain that the package does not itself supply a country-wide symbol search in the described workflow; users first need an instrument list, which may be collected from an exchange or prepared in a file.

Once symbols are available, the suggested approach is to loop over them, download historical prices from Yahoo, and optionally save each series as a CSV. A second response shows passing a vector of symbols to the retrieval function. These are practical data-acquisition patterns rather than a complete country-level market-data solution. The document gives no coverage, reliability, or provider-availability checks, and its sample relies on a particular historical data source and a manually maintained symbol list.

Key ideas

The described workflow requires obtaining the relevant exchange symbols before downloading prices.
A list of symbols can be processed one at a time or passed as a group.
Historical series can be saved locally for later analysis.
The examples use Yahoo as the data source and do not establish its current coverage or reliability.
The approach does not automatically discover every listing in a country.

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# Is it possible to download stock-data countrywise with quantmod package for R?


# Is it possible to download stock-data countrywise with quantmod package for R?












### Is it possible to download stock-data countrywise with quantmod package for R ?

Hi, I'm wondering if it's possible to download equities countrywise.

Let's say i want all data from the Finnish market.

All Finnish stock symbols ends with .HE, so what I want is

```
getSymbols("all stocks that ends with .HE", ...)
```

Thanks !

## Answer by Atul Agarawal (score 2)

https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/27984

I don't have perfect solution for above problem, I but can help you out with the alternative. As far as my information you can't download the data country wise. I was also looking for the same. You should have all the symbols first in place. I have prepared a small code which loop through the all available symbols and get historical data from Yahoo.

```
library(quantmod)
startDate = "2000-01-01"
thePath = " * "
source(paste(thePath,"code\\listOfInstruments.r",sep=""))

for (ii in theInstruments){
  print(ii)
  data = getSymbols(Symbols = ii, 
                    src = "yahoo", 
                    from = startDate, 
                    auto.assign = FALSE)
  colnames(data) = c("open","high","low","close","volume","adj.")
  write.zoo(data,paste(thePath,ii,".csv",sep=""),sep=",",row.names=FALSE)
}
```

Regarding symbols that you can easily download from exchange and save it, It's a one time job. Rest you can use the above code to get the data life long. I have created database using above code only.

## Answer by Ridzuan Noor (score 0)

https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/24785

A way is to loop through a list of symbols.

lisym <- c("ELI1V.HE", "KRA1V.HE") getSymbols(lisym) ELI1V <- get("ELI1V.HE") barChart(ELI1V)

or prepare the symbol names in csv file n loop thru it.

lisym <- readLines("stocks.csv")

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Downloading Country-Specific Stock Data with quantmod

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