[R-SIG-Finance] TSE ticker problems

[Paul Gilbert]

Jeff

I've switched back and forth between chart.yahoo.com and 
ichart.finance.yahoo.com. Some things seem to fail on one or the other. 
I made yahoo.URL an argument so I could pass it, and looped through a 
list trying the second if the first failed. Currently  BBD.B.TO fails 
with both, but it worked on the default URL yesterday. I'm pausing for 2 
seconds between each retrieval, so I don't think yahoo should be 
blocking me.

In addition, I had not noticed the gap that Garrett just pointed out.

Paul

On 12-07-11 04:07 PM, Jeffrey Ryan wrote:
> 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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