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

[Josh Ulrich]

>All of a sudden get.hist.quote cease to function, i switched to zoo after i
>totally failed to get yahooImport to work. I've been using the below R
>snippet for weeks without any problems what so ever.

<snip>

>Error in if (!quiet && dat[n] != start) cat(format(dat[n], "time series
>starts %Y-%m-%d\n")) :
>          missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

This is because Yahoo recently changed the date format of its CSV files from 
"%d-%m-%y" to "%Y-%m-%d".  All that needs to be changed in 'get.hist.quote' 
is this line of code:
from: dat <- as.Date(dat, "%d-%b-%Y")
to: dat <- as.Date(dat, "%Y-%m-%d")

Other similar functions (e.g. 'yahooImport') will likely have the same 
problem.

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