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

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Joshua Ulrich <josh.m.ulrich at gmail.com> wrote:
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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.
>>
> The quantmod code on R-Forge should not be considered "stable".  It's
> where development changes are applied and tested.  If you want the
> latest from R-Forge, you must build from source, or wait for the
> R-Forge build process to create the package.
>
> See here if you want to build from source.
> http://stackoverflow.com/q/11105131/271616
>

Yeah, you're right. I'm not going to mess with that.

Hopefully someone will patch the stable version as soon as is
reasonable to add this change.

Thanks,
Mark