[R-sig-finance] Using data from yahooImport (fBasics)

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Gabor, Achim, 

On 7 April 2006 at 08:47, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
| The tseries function, get.hist.quote, uses download.file and that's where
| its coming from.  If you want you can redefine download.file with quiet =
| TRUE.

Right. I think I did that once.

| The following creates a wrapper around get.hist.quote that first
| defines a download.file wrapper with quiet = TRUE and then
| places a copy of get.hist.quote in a proto object whose parent is
| the environment within the redefined get.hist.quote so that the
| redefined download.file is found.

Very nice. I hope I get a chance to study this, and the proto package, at
some point.

| The above does not display messages on the R console
| although it still does have a popup that briefly appears.

Only on some OSs but not on the one I tend to use :)


On 7 April 2006 at 15:18, Achim Zeileis wrote:
| Just that I understand. Is this basically a request to add a `quiet =
| TRUE' option to get.hist.quote()?

Yes please!

Dirk

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