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

[Patrick Hausmann]

At 16:36 - 6 Jun 2002, Carlos Ortega wrote:

> I am having a problem with the get.hist.quote command (tseries library) in
> the Windows version.

I am having a similar problem:

++++++++++++++ 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=0
6&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 fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard 
unambiguous format

++++++++++++++ ERROR MESSAGE +++++++++++++++++++

> R.Version()
[1] "i386-pc-mingw32"
[1] "i386"
[1] "mingw32"
[1] "i386, mingw32"
[1] "Patched"
[1] "1"
[1] "5.0"
[1] "2002"
[1] "05"
[1] "16"
[1] "R"

If I download the file from yahoo and use 'read.csv()' it works:

> x.local <- read.csv("c:/table.csv",header=T)
> summary(x.local)
       Date           Open            
 1-Apr-02:   1   Min.   : 10.14 
[...]

Patrick


> 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 +++++++++++++++++++++
> > 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
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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