[R-SIG-Finance] TSE ticker problems

[Jeffrey Ryan]

The format that getSymbols uses internally is:

http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=COS.TO&a=0&b=01&c=2007&d=6&e=11&f=2012&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=COS.TO&x=.csv

Which somehow doesn't resolve to the data in this instance.  I'll investigate.

Thanks,
Jeff

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:42 PM, G See <gsee000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> But... I see plenty of data there...  including a link to "Download to
> Spreadsheet"
> http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=COS.TO&d=6&e=11&f=2012&g=d&a=7&b=13&c=1996&ignore=.csv
>
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Doug Edmunds <dougedmunds at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=COS.TO ,
>> the link to Historical Prices has no data.
>>
>> Probably why you only get headers.
>>
>>
>>>>> getSymbols("COS.TO", src="yahoo")
>>
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