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

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

Is this a locale problem?  Does setting an English locale help?
There is a bug report on R-bugs in a Finnish locale that was
unreproducible by any of the developers.

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Patrick Hausmann wrote:

> 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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