Bug fix release beancounter_0.7.4
A new beancounter version has just been uploaded to Debian, CPAN and my beancounter pages; Freshmeat will get updated shortly. It contains code from three patches that add GetPortfolioData function, ensure proxy information is set and data written to stockprices table does not contain NAs, and to backpopulate non-US stocks in batches of 200.

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New 'R in Finance' list up and running
Yesterday, I sent this note to the r-help list:

Thanks again to everybody who participated in the finance sessions at the recent useR! 2004 conference. During the discussions, the idea of a mailing list for R and Finance came up. Thanks to Martin, such a list has now been created and can be accessed via the page

https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance

from which subscription requests can be made using the usual confirmation system employed by the mailman software. Everybody interested in 'Finance' (we will try not to be too picky regarding definitions) and R us cordially invited to subscribe. Also feel free to forward this message to interested colleagues.

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