priceIts

Well I downloaded the data using the link in your message which suggests 
that the code is right. I don't have its loaded (I assume it's from the 
irregular time series package)

so I can't test the code as you have it.

Have you tried checking to see it it is an issue with the internet (your 
browser, blocked sites etc) rather than a problem in R?

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Remigijus
Lapinskas
Sent: Thursday, 29 September 2005 12:31 PM
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] priceIts


Dear All,

There is an example for the priceIts function (the its package) which
does not work for me as expected.

?priceIts
 x1 <- priceIts(instrument = c("^ftse"), start = "1998-01-01",

+                          quote = "Close")
Error in validObject(.Object) : invalid class "its" object: Missing
values in dates

     x2 <- priceIts(instrument = c("^gdax"), start = "1998-01-01",

+                          quote = "Close")
Error in download.file(url, destfile, method = method, quiet
= quiet) :
         cannot open URL
'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=^gdax&a=0&b=01&c=1998&d=8&
e=28&f=2005&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=^gdax&x=.csv'
In addition: Warning message:
cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'

     x <- union(x1,x2)

Error: Object "x1" not found
Error in union(x1, x2) : unable to find the argument 'x' in
selecting a
method for function 'union'

     names(x) <- c("FTSE","DAX")
     plot(x,lab=TRUE)

Any help appreciated.

Best wishes,
Remigijus

chart.yahoo.com is notoriously fickle (as we have seen from the tseries