Hi,

I am wondering if anybody has experienced this issue. When downloading
multiple symbols from yahoo using getSymbols, the first few will
successfully download only to fail and produce the error below. This
problem began yesterday night (May 13th) and persisted till today. Was able
to reproduce from 4 different computers with different IP's. The last time
I get this error was about a month ago. The next day the issue went away,
which tells me that it's Yahoo. Just want to see the community's experience
and how often you have trouble downloading multiple symbols from yahoo.

Henry

R 2.15.3
quantmod 0.4-0
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pausing 1 second between requests for more than 5 symbols

pausing 1 second between requests for more than 5 symbols

pausing 1 second between requests for more than 5 symbols

Error in download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m,
:

  cannot open URL '
http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=VCIT&a=0&b=01&c=2007&d=4&e=14&f=2013&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=VCIT&x=.csv
'

In addition: Warning message:

In download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m,  :

  unable to connect to 'chart.yahoo.com' on port 80.

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