[R] Problem with get.hist.quote (tseries library)....

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Carlos Ortega wrote:

> 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 ?

I've just tried it on R-1.5.0 under Windows, and it worked correctly (as it
did when I compiled tseries and put it on CRAN).

I guess the workaround is to use the machine you have which does work.

>
> Thanks,
> Carlos.
>
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ERROR MESSAGE +++++++++++++++++++++
> > library(tseries)
> >  x <- get.hist.quote(instrument = "ibm", quote = c("Cl", "Vol"))
> trying URL
> `http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=ibm&a=01&b=02&c=1991&d=06&e=05&f=2002&g=
> d&q=q&y=0&z=ibm&x=.csv'
> Content type `application/octet-stream' length unknown
> opened URL
> downloaded 119Kb
>
> Error in if (dat[n] != start) cat(format(dat[n], "time series starts
> %Y-%m-%d\n")) :
>         missing value where logical needed
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++ R VERSION ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> R.Version()
> $platform
> [1] "i386-pc-mingw32"
>
> $arch
> [1] "i386"
>
> $os
> [1] "mingw32"
>
> $system
> [1] "i386, mingw32"
>
> $status
> [1] "Patched"
>
> $major
> [1] "1"
>
> $minor
> [1] "5.0"
>
> $year
> [1] "2002"
>
> $month
> [1] "06"
>
> $day
> [1] "05"
>
> $language
> [1] "R"
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>
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