I have a related question. Does quantmod still support oanda?

I got the following message when I tried

> getSymbols("XPT/USD",src="Oanda")
Error in do.call(paste("getSymbols.", symbol.source, sep = ""), list(Symbols
= current.symbols,  : could not find function "getSymbols.Oanda"

Thanks

-k

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Jeff Ryan <jeff.a.ryan@gmail.com> wrote:

> Try and remove the ^
>
> > getSymbols("GE", src="yahoo", from = from.dat, to = to.dat)
> [1] "GE"
>
> > str(GE)
> An 'xts' object from 2008-01-02 to 2009-02-19 containing:
>  Data: num [1:286, 1:6] 37.1 36.8 36.5 36.2 36.4 ...
>  - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
>  ..$ : NULL
>  ..$ : chr [1:6] "GE.Open" "GE.High" "GE.Low" "GE.Close" ...
>  Indexed by objects of class: [POSIXt,POSIXct] TZ: America/Chicago
>  xts Attributes:
> List of 2
>  $ src    : chr "yahoo"
>  $ updated: POSIXct[1:1], format: "2009-04-27 22:18:22"
>
> HTH
> Jeff
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:06 PM, megh <megh700004@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I am having problem downloading quote from Yahoo (historical stock
> quotes
> > from GE) using Quantmod package. I have following quote :
> >
> > from.dat <- as.Date("01/01/08", format="%m/%d/%y")
> > to.dat <- as.Date("02/19/09", format="%m/%d/%y")
> > getSymbols("^GE", src="yahoo", from = from.dat, to = to.dat)
> >
> > Error is :
> > Error in download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=",
> from.m,
> > :
> >  cannot open URL
> > 'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=
> ^GE&a=0&b=01&c=2008&d=1&e=19&f=2009&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=^GE&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'
> >
> > Can anyone please point out that what is the wrong here? How can I
> download
> > data from Yahoo efficiently?
> >
> > Regards,
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