[R-SIG-Finance] get.hist.quote

[BBands]

On 1/23/07, Jerry Pressnell <jpressnell at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> I have been running this script regularly for some time. Recently the
> following error message appeared.
>
> Any suggestions to correct this change would be appreciated.
>
>
>
> EWL<-get.hist.quote("EWL",start=(today <- Sys.Date())-350,quote="Cl")
>
> trying URL 'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=EWL&a=1&b&c 06&d=0&e!&f
> 07&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=EWL&x=.csv'
>
> Content type 'text/csv' length unknown
>
> opened URL
>
> downloaded 11Kb
>
>
>
> Error in if (dat[n] != start) cat(format(dat[n], "time series starts
> %Y-%m-%d\n")) :
>
> missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

I received a similar message a few weeks ago. Apparently in was a
Yahoo! problem as it went away within an hour and I haven't seen it
since.

     jab
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