[R-SIG-Finance] yahooKeystats broken?

[jctoll]

Hi,

I've been trying to use the yahooKeystats function from fImport, but I
think it may be broken.

> yahooKeystats("IBM", try=FALSE)
trying URL 'http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=IBM'
Content type 'text/html; charset=utf-8' length unknown
opened URL
.......... .......... .......... ...
downloaded 33 Kb

Read 151 items
Error in matrix(unlist(strsplit(x, "@")), byrow = TRUE, ncol = 2) :
  attempt to set an attribute on NULL

I tried to check out the code and the problem is that x is basically
empty when it gets passed to matrix().

I think the problem is with this earlier section of code:

if (length(Index) > 0)
            x = x[-Index]

I'm not sure what they were trying to do with that code, but this
looks like the problem.

I was hoping someone could confirm whether yahooKeystats is working or
not for them.

Thanks,


James



> sessionInfo()
R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  stats     methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] fImport_2110.79              timeSeries_2130.90
timeDate_2130.91             PerformanceAnalytics_1.0.3.2
[5] quantmod_0.3-15              Defaults_1.1-1
TTR_0.20-2                   xts_0.7-5
[9] zoo_1.6-4

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.12.1     lattice_0.19-13