R help - Feb 2014 - New to R

I successfully downloaded and loaded the stockPortfolio and quadprog packages,
but when I entered the following command I got an error:


returns <- getReturns(names(stocks), freq="week")
Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In file(file, "rt") : cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not
Found'




When I tried discovering the source of this error, it appears that the file has
been temporarily moved to a new URL address.


I’m currently running Windows 8.1.


Is there a fix for this?




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Please give a reproducible example. When I run your code I get "object
'stocks' not found". So what is stocks?

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:24 PM, George Katsuras <geokat05 at
hotmail.com> wrote:
> I successfully downloaded and loaded the stockPortfolio and quadprog
packages, but when I entered the following command I got an error:
>
>
> returns <- getReturns(names(stocks), freq="week")
> Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In file(file, "rt") : cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not
Found'
>
>
>
>
> When I tried discovering the source of this error, it appears that the file
has been temporarily moved to a new URL address.
>
>
> I?m currently running Windows 8.1.
>
>
> Is there a fix for this?
>
>
>
>
> Sent from Windows Mail
>         [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
>
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