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

[Patrick Burns]

It could be a memory issue if you are growing
objects instead of creating an object the final
size and then subscripting into it with the assignment.


Patrick Burns
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Markus Loecher wrote:

>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
>
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