[R] priceIts

[Gabor Grothendieck]

The error message indicates that a problem is occurring in download.file.

Try to use download.file to download some web page from the internet to
see if that works,
   download.file("http://www.google.com", destfile = "google.htm")
If that does NOT work then examine the download.file help page carefully.
You may need to set your proxy server.

If that did work then as a workaround try using get.hist.quote in package
tseries with the argument retclass = "its".  Be sure you have the latest
version of tseries.

On 9/29/05, Remigijus Lapinskas <remigijus.lapinskas at mif.vu.lt> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> There is an example for the priceIts function (the its package) which
> does not work for me as expected.
>
>  > ?priceIts
>  >  x1 <- priceIts(instrument = c("^ftse"), start = "1998-01-01",
> +                          quote = "Close")
> Error in validObject(.Object) : invalid class "its" object: Missing
> values in dates
>  >      x2 <- priceIts(instrument = c("^gdax"), start = "1998-01-01",
> +                          quote = "Close")
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method = method, quiet = quiet) :
>         cannot open URL
> 'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=^gdax&a=0&b=01&c=1998&d=8&e=28&f=2005&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=^gdax&x=.csv'
> In addition: Warning message:
> cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
>  >      x <- union(x1,x2)
> Error: Object "x1" not found
> Error in union(x1, x2) : unable to find the argument 'x' in selecting a
> method for function 'union'
>  >      names(x) <- c("FTSE","DAX")
>  >      plot(x,lab=TRUE)
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Best wishes,
> Remigijus
>
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