Access the object using get() or backticks

At some point, you might download data for an instrument that does not have a syntactically valid name. Syntactically valid names contain letters, numbers, ".", and "_", and must start with a letter or a "." followed by a non-number.

For example, the symbol for Berkshire Hathaway class A shares is "BRK-A", which is not a syntactically valid name because it contains a "-" character. Another example are Chinese stocks, which have symbols composed of numbers. The Yahoo Finance symbol for the SSE Composite Index is "000001.SS".

You can use the get function or backticks (`) to access objects that do not have syntactically valid names.

This exercise is part of the course

Importing and Managing Financial Data in R

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Exercise instructions

Use getSymbols() to load data for "BRK-A".
Use backticks (`) and head() to look at the first few rows of data.
Use get() to assign the data loaded by getSymbols() to an object named BRK.A.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Load BRK-A data


# Use backticks (`) and head() to look at the loaded data
___(`___`)

# Use get() to assign the BRK-A data to an object named BRK.A
___ <- get("___")

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