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

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

I've traced this to a problem changing locales on Windows (it was in the
bugs database as PR#1116, BTW) and committed a fix to R-patched (soon to
be 1.5.1).

It only occurred

-  in a non-English locale
-  on platforms without strptime
-  but with locale support.

and there setting an English locale before starting R should have worked
(and did for me on WinXP).  But who knows about obselete versions of
Windows?

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Adrian Trapletti wrote:

> > Date: 07 Jun 2002 00:11:19 +0200
> > From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk>
> > Subject: Re: [R] Problem with get.hist.quote (tseries library)....
> >
> > "Patrick Hausmann" <patrick.hausmann at uni-bremen.de> writes:
> >
> > > At 21:48 - 6 Jun 2002, Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> wrote:
> > >
> > > > "Patrick Hausmann" <patrick.hausmann at uni-bremen.de> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > 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"))
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > Not happening here.
> > > >
> > > > a) is your tseries package up to date?
> > > First lines from ChangeLog:
> > > 2002-04-26  Adrian Trapletti <a.trapletti at bluewin.ch>
> > >       * DESCRIPTION (Version): New version is 0.9-0.
> >
> > Same here. (Doesn't it identify itself on load?)
>
> Yes, it does. And version 0.9-0 is the actual one. And for me under Linux it´s working fine.
>
> Thanks for your help, Peter
>
> Adrian
>
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