Well I have the same problem but ONLY WITH trying to get ibm. In other
words all other examples in the ?get.hist.quote are fine:
I am running R 1.3.1 on Windows ME.
See below:
# This is fine.
x <- get.hist.quote( instrument = "^spc", start = "1998-01-01",
quote = "Close")
plot(x)
# This is not fine as cannot find ibm.
# Error messages are the same as listed by Andrew.
x <- get.hist.quote(instrument = "ibm", quote = c("Cl", "Vol"))
plot(x, main = "International Business Machines Corp")
# Same. Retrieved "^spc" fine but when trying to do x, it failed.
# Cannot get ibm.
spc <- get.hist.quote(instrument = "^spc", start = "1998-01-01")
ibm <- get.hist.quote(instrument = "ibm", start = "1998-01-01")
x <- na.remove(ts.union(spc, ibm))
plot(x, main = "IBM vs S&P 500")
Cheers,
Ko-Kang Wang
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Trapletti" <a.trapletti at bluewin.ch>
To: "Dr. Andrew Criswell" <mousie at arcriswell.com>
Cc: "R-Help" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 9:47 PM
Subject: [R] Help with 'get.hist.quote' on tseries
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:36:43 +0700
From: "Dr. Andrew Criswell" <mousie at arcriswell.com>
Subject: [R] Help with 'get.hist.quote' on tseries
Hi ALL:
I am trying to use get.help.quote from library(tseries). I tried
to run the example from help(get.hist.quote) but R complained. Here
is the command I used and the response:
ibm <- get.hist.quote(instrument = "ibm", start = "1998-01-01")
trying URL
csv'
Content type `application/octet-stream' length unknown
opened URL
downloaded 45Kb
time series starts 1998-01-02
time series ends 2001-10-26
Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous
format
Can anyone help? (I use R 1.3.1 with Windows 2000.)
Thanks,
ANDREW
Andrew Criswell, Ph.D.
Graduate School, Bangkok University
Under Suse Linux 7.0 and R 1.3.1 this work fine (tseries 0.8-0). So this
is maybe a Windows related problem?
best
Adrian
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