Has anyone noticed that in the last few days, get.hist.quote (tseries pkg) with Yahoo no longer works?  I tried manually accessing http://chart.yahoo.com and that isn't available either.  Using your browser, you can go to yahoo finance, put in a symbol, then click on historical prices and what you want shows up fine.  To me, it looks like the problem is on Yahoo's end with their servers.  Has anyone else noticed that this no longer works?  Has anyone found an alternative?
Here's my line of code which I've been using successfully for a long time (years?) and worked as late as this past weekend:
'fDat <- get.hist.quote(instrument = "GE", start = "2013-11-30", end = Sys.Date(), quote = c("Open", "High", "Low", "Close", "Volume", "AdjClose"), quiet=FALSE)'
The error that comes back is:
'Error in get.hist.quote(instrument = "GE", start = "2013-11-30", end = Sys.Date(),  :   cannot open URL 'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=GE&a=10&b=30&c=2013&d=0&e=01&f=2014&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=GE&x=.csv'In addition: Warning messages:1: In download.file(url, destfile, method = method, quiet = quiet) :  InternetOpenUrl failed: 'A connection with the server could not be established''

Thanks,
-George 		 	   		  
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