[R] ask for your help

[Jim Lemon]

On 03/29/2014 04:09 AM, KIRA wrote:
> Hi R,
>        I am a new Chinese user of R, I like this language very much.In the recent months,I spend over 4 hours every day leanring R,but during the learning I come across some problems I can not understand.For R is still not very popular in China,I ask  some  net friends but nobody can give me a satisfactory answer,so I have to ask for your help. In the package quatmod, getSymbols is a useful tools to fetch datas form the Internet but it often can not work when I use it,such as
>   getSymbols("APPL",src="yahoo")  or getSymbols("APPL",from="2007-01-03",to=Sys.Date()) .It should be useful because many books have already shown it ,but   As of 0.4-0, ¡®getSymbols¡¯ uses env=parent.frame() and
>   auto.assign=TRUE by default.
>    This  behavior  will be  phased out in 0.5-0  when the call  will
>   default to use auto.assign=FALSE. getOption("getSymbols.env") and
>   getOptions("getSymbols.auto.assign") are now checked for alternate defaults
>    This message is shown once per session and may be disabled by setting
>   options("getSymbols.warning4.0"=FALSE). See ?getSymbol for more details
> ´íÎóÓÚdownload.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m,  :
>    ÎÞ·¨´ò¿ªURL'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=APPL&a=0&b=03&c=2007&d=2&e=29&f=2014&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=APPL&x=.csv'
> ´ËÍâ: ¾¯¸æÐÅÏ¢£º
> In download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m,  :
>    ÎÞ·¨´ò¿ª: HTTP״̬ÊÇ'404Not Found'
>   I want to know why.Maybe it due to the damn Great Firewall. I hope you can reply to me when convenience. Best ragards.(My English is not fluent, please do not mind)
>                                                                                                               A Chinese R  user&  lover.
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Hi KIRA,
I, like Peter, get a 404 error when I try to access the URL you 
included. Can you try to catch such an error on other URLs that you 
cannot access, as that may be the problem. I don't think the Great 
Firewall extends to Denmark _and_ Australia.

Jim