[R-SIG-Finance] quantmod and yahoo historical data download error - did yahoo changed the url?

[Samo Pahor]

Daniel, thanks.

Not working for me if I use like this:
> getSymbols("SPY", verbose=TRUE, from="2014-09-17", to="2014-09-18")
downloading  SPY .....

trying URL 'http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=SPY&a=8&b=17&c=2014&d=8&e=18&f=2014&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=SPY&x=.csv'
Error in download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m,  :
  cannot open URL
'http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=SPY&a=8&b=17&c=2014&d=8&e=18&f=2014&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=SPY&x=.csv'
In addition: Warning message:
In download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m,  :
  cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'

But magically works if I use:
> getSymbols("SPY", verbose=TRUE)
downloading  SPY .....

trying URL 'http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=SPY&a=0&b=01&c=2007&d=8&e=18&f=2014&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=SPY&x=.csv'
Content type 'text/csv' length unknown
opened URL
.......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
.......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
....
downloaded 104 Kb

done.
[1] "SPY"

So it look something is wrong with from/to...

Or, that data is not actually available on Yahoo for the 17th... Since:
> getSymbols("SPY", verbose=TRUE)
downloading  SPY .....

trying URL 'http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=SPY&a=0&b=01&c=2007&d=8&e=18&f=2014&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=SPY&x=.csv'
Content type 'text/csv' length unknown
opened URL
.......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
.......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
....
downloaded 104 Kb

done.
[1] "SPY"
> tail(SPY)
           SPY.Open SPY.High SPY.Low SPY.Close SPY.Volume SPY.Adjusted
2014-09-09   200.41   200.55  198.91    199.32   88509200       199.32
2014-09-10   199.43   200.20  198.77    200.07   67189500       200.07
2014-09-11   199.27   200.33  199.12    200.30   66774400       200.30
2014-09-12   200.10   200.12  198.56    199.13  117409300       199.13
2014-09-15   199.16   199.32  198.38    198.98   76350000       198.98
2014-09-16   198.61   200.84  198.50    200.48  116070400       200.48

Any ideas?

Best regards,
Samo

2014-09-18 4:55 GMT-04:00 Daniel Cegiełka <daniel.cegielka at gmail.com>:
> 2014-09-18 9:49 GMT+02:00 Samo Pahor <samo.pahor at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am facing issues with downloading historical data from yahoo using
>> quantmod this morning:
>> [1] "BAL"
>> Error in download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m,  :
>>   cannot open URL
>> 'http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=BAL&a=8&b=17&c=2014&d=8&e=18&f=2014&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=BAL&x=.csv'
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> In download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m,  :
>>   cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
>>
>> To me it looks like yahoo change urls (again?)
>
>> rm(BAL)
>> getSymbols("BAL")
> [1] "BAL"
>> tail(BAL)
>            BAL.Open BAL.High BAL.Low BAL.Close BAL.Volume BAL.Adjusted
> 2014-09-09 43.50 44.23 43.50     44.03      12600        44.03
> 2014-09-10 43.95 45.24 43.95     45.07      30500        45.07
> 2014-09-11    44.67    45.84   44.67     45.69      43000        45.69
> 2014-09-12    45.45    46.04   45.40     45.61      29600        45.61
> 2014-09-15    44.76    44.76   44.00     44.17      13500        44.17
> 2014-09-16    43.99    44.13   43.83     44.04       8900        44.04
>
> looks ok.
>
> Best regards,
> Daniel