What is wrong with the getSymbols("IBM") command I originally suggested to
you?

Michael

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Yumin <zpxykm@gmail.com> wrote:

>   Hi  Michael:
>
>   I installed:  install. packages("quantmod") and now it accept
> library(quantmod) sentence. BUT after input:
>
>  *                     con <- url("http://quote.yahoo.com")
>                     if(!inherits(try(open(con), silent = TRUE),
> "try-error"))
>                     {
>                        close(con)
>
>                         x <- get.hist.quote(instrument = "ibm", quote =
> c("Cl",
>
> "Vol"))
>                           plot(x, main = "International Business Machines
> Corp")
>                    }*
>
> The result is the same:
>
>  *            Warning message:
>                      In open.connection(con) : too many redirects, aborting
> ...*
>
>
>      ps: the 1st line of my code is:
>                 library(quantmod)
>
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