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

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On 7 Jun 2002, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> > [2049] "19-Apr-94,13.23,13.30,12.71,13.20,2094000"      "18-Apr-94,13.08,13.39,13.05,13.20,3120000"
> > [...]
> > The last two lines:
> > [2881] "4-Jan-91,27.89,27.95,27.67,27.73,1085100"       "3-Jan-91,27.79,28.16,27.76,27.82,1307400"
> > [2883] "2-Jan-91,27.92,28.13,27.73,27.73,1037700"
>
> Same here.
>
> Could you try debug(get.hist.quote) and see what line causes the
> error? My bet is this one:
>
>         dat <- as.POSIXct(strptime(dat, "%d-%b-%y"), tz = "GMT")
>
> If so, what is in `dat' at that point?

In a German locale I would expect that to work but generate NAs for months
where the English abbreviation is not used in German.  The error would
then come from later use of those NAs.

Now get.hist.quote tries to set the C locale, but there is no
guarantee that setting locales will work, and in particular that the C
locale exists.  My suspicion is that is the case on Windows.  If
(temporarily) you go to Regional settings in the Control Panel and
set an English locale, then try R again, it will probably work.


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