[R-SIG-Finance] [R-sig-finance] Downloading data from Yahoo

[Jeff Ryan]

Try and remove the ^

> getSymbols("GE", src="yahoo", from = from.dat, to = to.dat)
[1] "GE"

> str(GE)
An 'xts' object from 2008-01-02 to 2009-02-19 containing:
  Data: num [1:286, 1:6] 37.1 36.8 36.5 36.2 36.4 ...
 - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
  ..$ : NULL
  ..$ : chr [1:6] "GE.Open" "GE.High" "GE.Low" "GE.Close" ...
  Indexed by objects of class: [POSIXt,POSIXct] TZ: America/Chicago
  xts Attributes:
List of 2
 $ src    : chr "yahoo"
 $ updated: POSIXct[1:1], format: "2009-04-27 22:18:22"

HTH
Jeff

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:06 PM, megh <megh700004 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, I am having problem downloading quote from Yahoo (historical stock quotes
> from GE) using Quantmod package. I have following quote :
>
> from.dat <- as.Date("01/01/08", format="%m/%d/%y")
> to.dat <- as.Date("02/19/09", format="%m/%d/%y")
> getSymbols("^GE", src="yahoo", from = from.dat, to = to.dat)
>
> Error is :
> Error in download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m,
> :
>  cannot open URL
> 'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=^GE&a=0&b=01&c=2008&d=1&e=19&f=2009&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=^GE&x=.csv'
> In addition: Warning message:
> In download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m,  :
>  cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
>
> Can anyone please point out that what is the wrong here? How can I download
> data from Yahoo efficiently?
>
> Regards,
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