similar to: priceIts 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', breaking the regular format of n rows with k columns.

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 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,

Hi I'm new to R and would like to implement a SAS-like macro variable in R. What I'd like to do is take the simple R code below and change the "=TEF" to different letters to refer to different companies' data for download. # DOWNLOADS FILES FROM YAHOO INTERNET

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

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 `

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 with the

Hello, I am having a problem with the get.hist.quote command (tseries library) in the Windows version. This problem is not happening is the Linux version (Mandrake 8.2). Attached is the error message, for an example included in the help file. Also the R.Version() details is attached. Please, do you know if there is a workaround ? Thanks, Carlos. ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ERROR MESSAGE

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 <-

Hi- I would like to be able to change the value of SymA below and download a file from the corresponding URL.? Hardcoded, this line works fine: Symbol<- read.csv("http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=SPY&ignore=.csv", stringsAsFactors=F) However, when I incorporate using?a variable for the ticker, it no longer works.? SymA<- "SPY" Sym1<-

Hi R, I am trying to download the data from R. I give the below command. > library(fImport) > yahooSeries("IBM") trying URL 'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=IBM&a=7&b=08&c=2007&d=7&e=07&f=2008& g=d&x=.csv' Error in download.file(url = url, destfile = file, method = method) : cannot open URL

When read.table imports a table that includes a header called 'Date', it tries to recognize the date format. For example, if one imports this data from Yahoo finance, the Date column is automatically transformed to Y-m-d, whereis in the data it appears as m/d/Y: myData <-

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

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

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

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

I have been having the same problem as poster Hodgess, below. It appears that her question was never answered, so I would like to share a solution with the community. The problem is the (apparent?) inability to produce moving range process behavior (a.k.a. "control") charts with individuals data in the package "qcc" (v. 2.0). I have also struggled with the same limitation in

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