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

[Markus Loecher]

Dear all,
I am trying to download a few thousand financial timeseries from
yahoo.finance using get.hist.quote().
It worked great initially, but for some reason, my loop seems to always get
stuck after ~1500 requests. R becomes completely unresponsive and I need to
restart it (MAC OS). As these are daily aggregates for just a year, this
should not be a memory/data size problem.
Does Yaho protect itself against such automated scripts ?
If so, why does my get.hist.quote function not simply time out after a few
minutes ?

Any help would be immensely useful,

Thanks,
Markus