[R-SIG-Finance] get.hist.quote with Yahoo No Longer Works?

[Mark Knecht]

Dirk,
   I far prefer your groovy ideas and where I got to using them than
what I did yesterday. In the case of quantmod::getSymbols the problem
isn't the direct function but rather the 'sub'-function
getSymbols.yahoo, so using your idea I do:

getSymbols.MWK = getSymbols.yahoo
fix(getSymbols.MWK)

do the URL modification and one more fix, i.e:

quantmod:::convert.time.series

and save the function in my overall MWK_Functions.R file. At this
point I can simply change one line in any of my source code files,
ala:

SymbolSrc = "yahoo"

becomes

SymbolSrc = "MWK"

At that point all my existing getSymbols calls go to the new function
and seem to work fine:

> getSymbols(c("AGG","GLD","IWM"), src="MWK")
[1] "AGG" "GLD" "IWM"


All of my MySQL databases are now updating and I can go back the
original function when the fix comes out. Sweet! Thanks!

- Mark

On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> George,
>
> As previously reported here (for similar Yahoo! accessor functions) and as
> shown here:
>
>    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20872762/is-get-hist-quote-still-returning-data-with-source-yahoo-finance/
>
> and in Mark's reply, the fix is to update the URL.  I just reported that
> upstream to Kurt Hornik as well.
>
> Dirk
>
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