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...is ignored when I use "write.csv". I had to resort to using "write.table". Is this always the case? As for the historical interest rates, thank you all very much for providing me with the information (Finance mailing list). I used the fImport package and called the method "fredSeries" to download "DPRIME" data for the same time frame as currency data I have (Thank you, Mr. Gallon). But that is only data for US. What about other countries? I was talking to a professor and he said that there was a way to read data from a website into R if you know the url. Would...

Hi Folks! I seem to be having a problem with alignDailySeries in Rmetrics: DTB6<-fredSeries("DTB6",frequency = "daily",from = "1980-01-01") trying URL ' http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/DTB6/downloaddata/DTB6.txt' Content type 'text/plain; charset=UTF-8' length 248392 bytes (242 Kb) opened URL downloaded 242 Kb Read 13060 items cl...