[R-sig-finance] Behaviour of get.hist.quote when presented with bad inputs

[Ajay Narottam Shah]

> >| With R 2.3, when I say get.hist.quote("rubbish") he gets  
> >extremely unhappy:
> >|
> >| > library(tseries)
> >| Loading required package: quadprog
> >| Loading required package: zoo
> >| > x <- get.hist.quote("rubbish")
> >| trying URL
> >| 'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv? 
> >s=rubbish&a=0&b=02&c=1991&d=4&e=08&f=2006&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=rubbish&x=.csv 
> >'
> >|  *** caught segfault ***
> >| address 0x5f4d4550, cause 'memory not mapped'
> 
> This is a (hard to trace) bug in the internal http request code in R  
> 2.3.0 that strangely enough appears only on OS X. If the URL doesn't  
> exist, R blows (basically it blows when it wants to print an error  
> message). You may want to switch to another download method for now  
> as Dirk suggested, and hopefully we'll fix this soon.

I tried to use options() to set the download method to wget, but the
problem didn't go away.

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