Inpirical-Coder

# This is a simple example for acquiring text-stream assets using the R "tm" package

require(tm)                     # Load the text-mining package.
require(tm.plugin.webmining)    # Web-mining plugin for text mining.
require(SnowballC)              # Package for stemming.

# Define the symbol we want to acquire news on.
sym = "NYSE:HSBC"

# Build a corpus of the news items.