[R-SIG-Finance] getSymbols fails for Yahoo symbols

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Joshua Ulrich <josh.m.ulrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ivan,
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Ivan Popivanov
> <ivan.popivanov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Looks like Yahoo have stopped providing web interface via chart.yahoo.com,
>> which is used by getSymbols.yahoo. The site used to download data through
>> the web interface is ichart.finance.yahoo.com, which seems to use the same
>> interface.
>>
> Thanks for the report.  Fixed in r610 on R-Forge.
>
>> Happy New Year,
>> Ivan
>>
>
> Best,
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How does one install the new version? The standard command I've used
for other packages

install.packages("quantmod", repos = "http://R-Forge.R-project.org")

installs 0.4.1 which is likely the stable version I suppose.

If it matters I'm using R-3.0.2 & R-Studio-0.98.490

Thanks!

- Mark