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

[jefe goode]

I have updated tseries today ('tseries' version:
0.10-7)
and I still get the problem below with get.hist.quote

Do we need to manually edit a line of code in
get.hist.quote? If so where do I find the source and
what steps needed to install?

Thanks

Jefe
--- Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik at wu-wien.ac.at> wrote:

> >>>>> Josh Ulrich writes:
> 
> >> 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")
> 
> Thanks.  Updated version of tseries on CRAN now.
> 
> Best
> -k
> 
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