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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, 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 `

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

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.

The plotOHLC function in the tseries package is useful to plot timeseries of various financial assets with open/high/low/close data. I had often wondered if it could be made to run a little faster. It turns out that the following patch does --- plotOHLC.R.orig 2003-12-14 12:02:20.000000000 -0600 +++ plotOHLC.R 2003-12-14 12:03:42.000000000 -0600 @@ -21,14 +21,9 @@ ylim <-

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

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

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 <-

I'm trying to plot a ibm stock time series. I made the download of that series, ibm <- get.hist.quote(instrument = "ibm", start = "2003-01-01",quote=c("CL")) And ibm is a serie wiht this characteristic: Start = 37623 End = 37960 Frequency = 1 When I try to plot it, ts.plot(ibm) In the graphic the axe time is represented by 37623 ... 37960, How can I put

Full_Name: Arto Luoma Version: 1.3.1 OS: Windows 98 Submission from: (NULL) (153.1.53.119) Hi! The function get.hist.quote in the package tseries (Version 0.7-6) does not work in my computer. I found that it uses the function strptime which did not "understand" English month names in my Finnish locale (see bug report 811). I changed the regional settings to be English (UK) and

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

Hi R users, I have a problem in downloading Yahoo Finance data from R. I have tried an example given in R, to download. The error is given below: >library(fCalendar) > yahooImport("s=IBM&a=11&b=1&c=1999&d=0&q=31&f=2000&z=IBM&x=.csv ", file = "D:\\ Downlaod",source = "http://ichart.yahoo.com/table.csv?", save = FALSE,

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 <-

Hi, I got some problems while was trying to download data from Yahoo using yahoo.get.hist.quote() function. My script is as follows : app <- yahoo.get.hist.quote("aapl", start="02/07/09", end="02/07/06", quote="close") However I got following error : trying URL

Hi, I wanted to download some currency data using "quantmod" package, however got following error : > getSymbols('USD/GBP',src='yahoo') Error in download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m, : cannot open URL

Thanks a lot for "tseries"! The new (0.1-2) version of the tseries package contains the following in ./README : >> Author(s): A. Trapletti <A.Trapletti@ci.tuwien.ac.at>, >> B. LeBaron ("./src/bdstest.c"), >> K. Krischer, and T. M. Kruel ("./src/muin2ser.f", >> "./misc/mutinfo-1.21b.tar.gz") >>

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [R] Re: tseries Package for R Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:56:34 -0800 From: Martin Renner <martin.renner at stonebow.otago.ac.nz> To: Adrian Trapletti <a.trapletti at bluewin.ch> References: <61CBB4C9-10C7-11D9-A624-000D932E990C at comcast.net> <4158F5B6.3020103 at bluewin.ch> see http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/macosx/ and

Full_Name: Przemys³aw Matuszewski Version: R-1.1.0 OS: Linux RH 6.2 Submission from: (NULL) (195.117.211.244) I have a problem with the package tseries_0.5-2. The source of tseries_0.5-2 was compiled by command R INSTALL /path/to/package. There was build the tseries library. Now when I try to load the package I get the message: ........................... Type "demo()" for

Dear Dr. Trapletti, I am trying to use your tseries 0.7-0 package with R 1.2.1 (the latest version) under redhat linux 6.2, but the command library(tseries) causes R dump to core with a segmentation fault. Do you have any suggestions how to fix this? Thank you, Keith Dr. Keith M. Briggs, Complexity Research Group, BTexaCT. Adastral Park admin2 pp5, Martlesham Heath, IP5 3RE, Suffolk, UK Tel:

Norbert Klink wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to use your tseries GARCH functionality in conjuction with > S-Plus 6 under Windows. Unfortunately, in order to make DLLs usable for > S-Plus it requires you to generate a so-called "S-Plus Chapter DLL", which > carries some S-Plus specific overhead. Loading your DLLs as they are > wouldn't work. Trying to compile the