[R] tseries (get.hist.quote)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

This has been in the R-bugs database, twice.  The problem is that you are
(I presume) using an non-English locale to read English dates. To allow
this, get.hist.quote attempts to change to the `C' locale.  The way
strptime() was implemented on Windows did not allow for locale-changing
during a session, but that was changed for 1.5.1, and certainly works when
my machine is put in a German locale (which it did not do under 1.5.0).

Try setting your machine to an English locale.  If anyone who is in a
non-English locale can reproduce this with 1.5.1 and find a fix, please
submit a patch.

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Christian Schulz wrote:

> 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 ?

(There definitely is.  Windows thinks I am on GMT Daylight Time, for
example.)

> Thanks for advance & regards,Christian
>
>
> $ 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=07&e=17&f=2002&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=ibm&x=.csv
> '
> Content type `application/octet-stream' length unknown
> opened URL
> downloaded 48Kb
>
> time series starts 1998-01-02
> Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous
> format
>
>
>
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