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

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Fri Feb 9 16:04:59 CET 2007



Josh Ulrich wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

I suspected it was a Yahoo issue, ok, then i know for sure and hope rmetrics
and zoo update the packages to reflect to changes made by finance yahoo.

Thank you for your help, very much appreciated.
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