Hi all,

OS - Ubuntu 1010 desktop 64bit w/o gui

> require('fImport')
Loading required package: fImport
Loading required package: timeDate
Loading required package: timeSeries

> yahooImport("IBM")
trying URL 
'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=IBM&a=&b=&c=&d=11&e=15&f=2010&g=d&x=.csv'
Content type 'text/csv' length unknown
opened URL
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downloaded 617 Kb

It won't display the data on R console


I must run;
> yahooImport("IBM", file="IBM.csv", save=T)
to save the file.

> list.files(getwd(), full.name=T)
 [1] "/home/satimisub1010dk02/Desktop"         
 [2] "/home/satimisub1010dk02/Documents"       
 [3] "/home/satimisub1010dk02/Downloads"       
 [4] "/home/satimisub1010dk02/examples.desktop"
 [5] "/home/satimisub1010dk02/IBM.csv"         
.....
....    


I looked at ?yahooImport and couldn't resolve making it display the stock data 
on R console.  Any advice?


Besides is there a tool to download stock data from Google finance instead of 
using their download tool?

TIA

B.R.
Stephen L



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