[R] Downloading Yahoo data

[Shubha Vishwanath Karanth]

Yes Henrique... we are connecting to the internet through a proxy...

Thanks, Shubha
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-----Original Message-----
From: Henrique Dallazuanna [mailto:wwwhsd at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:17 PM
To: Shubha Vishwanath Karanth
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] Downloading Yahoo data

You are connecting to the internet trougth a proxy?

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Shubha Vishwanath Karanth
<shubhak at ambaresearch.com> wrote:
> Hi R,
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> I am trying to download the data from R. I give the below command.
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>> library(fImport)
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>> yahooSeries("IBM")
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> trying URL
> 'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=IBM&a=7&b=08&c=2007&d=7&e=07&f=2008&
> g=d&x=.csv'
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> Error in download.file(url = url, destfile = file, method = method) :
>
>  cannot open URL
> 'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=IBM&a=7&b=08&c=2007&d=7&e=07&f=2008&
> g=d&x=.csv'
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> In addition: Warning message:
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> In download.file(url = url, destfile = file, method = method) :
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>  unable to connect to 'chart.yahoo.com' on port 80.
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> Error: cannot get a slot ("data") from an object of type "character"
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> In addition: Warning message:
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> trying to get slot "data" from an object of a basic class ("character")
> with no slots
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> The problem is related with connection of R with the internet. But my
> port 80 is opened. Then also the error persists.
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> And also, the link is accessible in my PC via the direct internet. How
> do I make this work?
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> Many Thanks,
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> Shubha
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