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Dear R People: In library(its), there is a command priceIts. There is a problem with this command. It is returning an error message: > ibm1 <- priceIts(instrument="ibm",start="1998-01-01",quote="Open") Error in download.file(url, destfile, method = method, quiet = quiet) : cannot open URL `http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=ibm&a=0&b=01&c=1998&d=5&e=30&f=2004&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=ibm&x=.csv' In addition: Warning...

Both get.hist.quote, and its derivative priceIts, rely on download.file() to fetch financial data series from Yahoo! in .csv format. They allow for nice interactive demonstrations of what one can do with R. Unfortunately, both are currently broken as Yahoo! decided to add a somewhat useless html comment at the end of the csv 'stream', breaking the regular format of n rows with k columns.

Dear All, There is an example for the priceIts function (the its package) which does not work for me as expected. > ?priceIts > x1 <- priceIts(instrument = c("^ftse"), start = "1998-01-01", + quote = "Close") Error in validObject(.Object) : invalid class "its" object: Missing values in dates > x2 <- priceIts(instrument = c("^gdax"), start = "1998-01-01", + quote = "...

Hi ALL: I am trying to use get.help.quote from library(tseries). I tried to run the example from help(get.hist.quote) but R complained. Here is the command I used and the response: ibm <- get.hist.quote(instrument = "ibm", start = "1998-01-01") trying URL `http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=ibm&a=01&b=01&c=1998&d=10&e=28&f=2001&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=ibm&x=. csv' Content type `application/octet-stream' length unknown opened URL downloaded 45Kb time series starts 1998-01-02 time ser...

...the "get.hist.quote" but didn't now why i get with the examples from Online-Help errorMessages. Perhaps their is a problem with POSIX and my OS WIN2000/R1.5.1 ? Thanks for advance & regards,Christian $ ibm <- get.hist.quote(instrument = "ibm", start = "1998-01-01") trying URL ` http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=ibm&a=01&b=01&c=1998&d=07&e=17&f=2002&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=ibm&x=.csv ' Content type `application/octet-stream' length unknown opened URL downloaded 48Kb time series starts 1998-01-02 Error...

...ime and julian produce > Sys.time() [1] "2001-10-04 15:33:14 GTB Daylight Time" > julian(Sys.time()) Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format > get.hist.quote produces x <- get.hist.quote(instrument = "^spc", start = "1998-01-01", + quote = "Close") trying URL `http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=^spc&a=01&b=01&c=1998&d=10&e=03&f=2001&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=^spc&x=.csv' Content type `application/octet-stream' length unknown opened URL downlo...

Full_Name: Alexander Gracian Version: 1.7 OS: windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (217.158.140.82) Since yesterday morning get.hist.quote in tseries has not been connecting to yahoo 90% of the time. Is this a problem or change at Yahoo's end? Alex Example of R output... Tring to pulling in 30 days of pricestrying URL