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

[Paul Gilbert]

It seems that chart.yahoo.com  has returned to service.

Paul

On 13-12-31 03:50 PM, Joshua Ulrich wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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>>> FOSS Trading  |  www.fosstrading.com
>>>
>>
>> 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
>
>> If it matters I'm using R-3.0.2 & R-Studio-0.98.490
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> - Mark
>
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