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2005 Sep 29
2
priceIts
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...
2004 Jul 02
1
priceIts problem
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.c...
2005 Apr 29
2
how to replace text...
if I have.... QQQQ<-priceIts("QQQQ",quote="Close") QQQQ<-priceIts("QQQQ",quote="Close");plot(QQQQ) and then i want to do the same thing but say with IBM instead of QQQQ is there an easy way like replace qqqq/ibm Thanks in advance./Jonathan
2007 Apr 16
0
priceIts and yahoo
Dear R People: About 2 years ago, there were a few messages about the function priceIts from library(its) generating error messages. One of the suggested fixes at that time was to check security software and such. I'm getting the same message tonight, and have checked both from Windows and a Linux installation. The other suggestion was to determine if there is still a problem...
2004 Apr 25
2
Yahoo bug in tseries::get.hist.quote and its::priceIts
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', br...
2004 Mar 03
5
get.hist.quote - is great, but am I missing something?
I find it's just great to be able to say: library(tseries) x <- get.hist.quote(instrument="ongc.ns") and it gets a full time-series of the stock price of the symbol ongc.ns from Yahoo quote. However, once my hopes have been raised by such beauty :-) I get disappointed when I do > plot(x) and the annotation is horrible! The x axis is not labelled as dates. The default