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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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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