[R] Help with 'get.hist.quote' on tseries

[Ko-Kang Wang]

Well I have the same problem but ONLY WITH trying to get ibm.  In other
words all other examples in the ?get.hist.quote are fine:

I am running R 1.3.1 on Windows ME.

See below:
# This is fine.
x <- get.hist.quote( instrument = "^spc", start = "1998-01-01",
                      quote = "Close")
plot(x)

# This is not fine as cannot find ibm.
# Error messages are the same as listed by Andrew.
x <- get.hist.quote(instrument = "ibm", quote = c("Cl", "Vol"))
plot(x, main = "International Business Machines Corp")

# Same.  Retrieved "^spc" fine but when trying to do x, it failed.
# Cannot get ibm.
spc <- get.hist.quote(instrument = "^spc", start = "1998-01-01")
ibm <- get.hist.quote(instrument = "ibm",  start = "1998-01-01")
x <- na.remove(ts.union(spc, ibm))
plot(x, main = "IBM vs S&P 500")

Cheers,

Ko-Kang Wang
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Ko-Kang Kevin Wang
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University of Auckland
New Zealand


----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Trapletti" <a.trapletti at bluewin.ch>
To: "Dr. Andrew Criswell" <mousie at arcriswell.com>
Cc: "R-Help" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 9:47 PM
Subject: [R] Help with 'get.hist.quote' on tseries


> > Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:36:43 +0700
> > From: "Dr. Andrew Criswell" <mousie at arcriswell.com>
> > Subject: [R] Help with 'get.hist.quote' on tseries
> >
> > 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
`http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=ibm&a=01&b=01&c=1998&d=10&e=28&f=2001&g=
d&q=q&y=0&z=ibm&x=.
> > csv'
> >
> > Content type `application/octet-stream' length unknown
> > opened URL
> > downloaded 45Kb
> >
> > time series starts 1998-01-02
> > time series ends   2001-10-26
> > Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous
> > format
> > >
> >
> > Can anyone help? (I use R 1.3.1 with Windows 2000.)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ANDREW
> >
> > Andrew Criswell, Ph.D.
> > Graduate School, Bangkok University
> >
>
> Under Suse Linux 7.0 and R 1.3.1 this work fine (tseries 0.8-0). So this
is maybe a Windows related problem?
>
> best
> Adrian
>
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