similar to: Downloading currency data from from Yahoo

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.

Hi there, I am having some trouble getting download.file to work. I have been searching for the answer but my raw coding ability is not at the same level as the solutions I am getting. I have checked my environment and the proxy settings are in line with what I expected: > Sys.getenv("http_proxy") http_proxy "http://proxy-lon2.macbank" >

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 <-

Dear sir, I am extremely sorry for messing up the logic asking for help w.r.t. my earlier mails   I have tried to explain below what I am looking for.     I have a database (say, currency_rates) storing datewise currency exchange rates with some base currency XYZ.   currency_rates <- data.frame(date = c("12/31/2010", "12/30/2010", "12/29/2010",

Hello, I was trying to use get.hist.quote in tseries, and got a segfault: -8<----------------------------------- > library(tseries) Loading required package: quadprog Loading required package: zoo 'tseries' version: 0.10-6 'tseries' is a package for time series analysis and computational finance. See 'library(help="tseries")' for

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

Hi All, I'm trying to download data using following code. require(UsingR) ## This is the R-package you need to run command yahoo.get.hist.quote #Initialize empty table closing <-NULL #Downalod consituents since I don't have it on my comp download.file("http://www2.standardandpoors.com/spf/csv/index/sp500.csv", "Z:/BETA PROJECT/DATA DOWNLOAD FROM

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

Dear R forum, (Pl note this is not a finance problem) I have two data.frames as currency_df = data.frame(current_date = c("3/4/2013", "3/4/2013", "3/4/2013", "3/4/2013"), issue_date = c("27/11/2012", "9/12/2012", "14/01/2013", "28/02/2013"), maturity_date = c("27/04/2013", "3/5/2013",

I've been using R for a while, but now find myself needing to understand time-series objects for a short course I am teaching. I am putting together some daily financial datasets for illustration, but having some trouble in aggregating the data to months or weeks. I am getting a "cannot change frequency from 1 to 12" message. I am not sure that aggregation is where I want to go

I am having a problem with extra digits being added to my data which I think is a result of how I am converting my data.frame data to xts. I see the same issue in R v2.13.1 and RStudio version 0.94.106. I am loading historical foreign exchange data in via csv files or from a sql server database. In both cases there are no extra digits and the original data looks like the following:

Dear R forum helpers, I am extremely sorry for the receipt of my incomplete mail yesterday. There was connectivity problem at my end and so I chose to send the mail through my cell, only to realize today about the way mail has been transmitted. I am again sending my complete mail through regular channel and sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused. ## Here is my actual mail Dear R

I''m thinking of experimenting with some currency conversion. However, I''d like the conversions to be in synch with the current rates. Anyone know (and this maybe out in left field) if there is some online (perhaps xml) or other data stream I can connect with in my code to output values based on user selection ? TIA Stuart

Hi, I''m interested in using a currency conversion web service in my rails app. Does anyone have a free service that they use and like? I found this one http://www.webservicex.net/WS/WSDetails.aspx?CATID=2&WSID=10 I''ve tried to make a simple, plain Ruby script to connect to this and get a conversion rate without success. How do I integrate a webservice into my rails app? I

Hello, I'm having a look at section 13.1 from SIP Connect v2 doc (see [1]). It refers to RFC6442 which gives the following example (sorry for its length): INVITE sips:bob at biloxi.example.com SIP/2.0 Via: SIPS/2.0/TLS pc33.atlanta.example.com;branch=z9hG4bK74bf9 Max-Forwards: 70 To: Bob <sips:bob at biloxi.example.com> From: Alice <sips:alice at

My mistake sir. I was literally engrossed in my stupid logic, and while doing so, overlooked the simple and very effective solution you had offered. Sorry once again sir and will certainly try to be very careful in future. Thanks again and have a great weekend sir. Regards Amelia --- On Fri, 7/1/11, Petr PIKAL <petr.pikal@precheza.cz> wrote: From: Petr PIKAL

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

Hi there! I'm stuck with a problem aligning financial timeseries and haven't found a cue how to fix it... When I run that simple script, everything goes well until the "align"-command: ------ rm(list=ls()) x <- yahooSeries("^GDAXI") head(x) xAligned <- align(x = x, by = "1d", method = "before", include.weekends = FALSE) ------ Here's

When using get.hist.quote(), I find the dates are broken. This is with R 2.1.1 on Mac OS X `panther'. > library(tseries) Loading required package: quadprog 'tseries' version: 0.9-27 'tseries' is a package for time series analysis and computational finance. See 'library(help="tseries")' for details. > x <-

Hi, i really positive surprised when i found 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 `