[R] Quantmod error

[Cedrick Johnson]

Can you ping the host 'finance.google.com' ??

The error msg is right there, "Unable to Resolve"

-c

I just tried it now:
 > getSymbols("GOOG", src="google")
[1] "GOOG"
 > head(GOOG)
           GOOG.Open GOOG.High GOOG.Low GOOG.Close GOOG.Volume
2007-01-03    466.00    476.66   461.11     467.59     7527500
2007-01-04    469.00    483.95   468.35     483.26     7787700
2007-01-05    482.50    487.50   478.11     487.19     6769400




Jose Narillos de Santos wrote:
> Hi all I have installed quantmod package but when I try to obtain GOOG data
> appers this message: Can anyone inform why itappears?
>
> I type getSymbols("GOOG",src="google")
> Thanks and Best Regards for all
>
> Error en download.file(paste(google.URL, "q=", Symbols.name, "&startdate=",
> :
>   no fue posible abrir la URL '
> http://finance.google.com/finance/historical?q=GOOG&startdate=Jan+01,+2007&enddate=Jan+20,+2010&output=csv
> '
> In download.file(paste(google.URL, "q=", Symbols.name, "&startdate=",  :
>   unable to resolve 'finance.google.com'
>
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
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