I have been having trouble getting quantmod to return data for certain
series. An examle is for ".AORD" (the Australian All Ordinaries index).

The following call:

getSymbols(".AORD", src="google")

results in this error message:

Error in download.file(paste(google.URL, "q=", Symbols.name, "&startdate=",
:
  cannot open URL '
http://finance.google.com/finance/historical?q=.AORD&startdate=Jan+01,+2007&enddate=Jun+10,+2009&output=csv
'
In addition: Warning message:
In download.file(paste(google.URL, "q=", Symbols.name, "&startdate=",  :
  cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'

The problem seems to be with the "output=csv" part of the url, since pasting
http://finance.google.com/finance/historical?q=.AORD&startdate=Jan+01,+2007&enddate=Jun+10,+2009into
a browser works fine.

Of course, the same problem doesn't always arise, as with the example from
the documentation:

getSymbols("MSFT", src="google")

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Regards,
Sean.

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Sean Carmody

The Stubborn Mule
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