Hi, i really positive surprised when i found the "get.hist.quote" but didn't now why i get with the examples from Online-Help errorMessages. Perhaps their is a problem with POSIX and my OS WIN2000/R1.5.1 ? Thanks for advance & regards,Christian $ ibm <- get.hist.quote(instrument = "ibm", start = "1998-01-01") trying URL ` http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=ibm&a=01&b=01&c=1998&d=07&e=17&f=2002&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=ibm&x=.csv ' Content type `application/octet-stream' length unknown opened URL downloaded 48Kb time series starts 1998-01-02 Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
tseries (get.hist.quote)
2 messages · Christian Schulz, Brian Ripley
This has been in the R-bugs database, twice. The problem is that you are (I presume) using an non-English locale to read English dates. To allow this, get.hist.quote attempts to change to the `C' locale. The way strptime() was implemented on Windows did not allow for locale-changing during a session, but that was changed for 1.5.1, and certainly works when my machine is put in a German locale (which it did not do under 1.5.0). Try setting your machine to an English locale. If anyone who is in a non-English locale can reproduce this with 1.5.1 and find a fix, please submit a patch.
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Christian Schulz wrote:
Hi, i really positive surprised when i found the "get.hist.quote" but didn't now why i get with the examples from Online-Help errorMessages. Perhaps their is a problem with POSIX and my OS WIN2000/R1.5.1 ?
(There definitely is. Windows thinks I am on GMT Daylight Time, for example.)
Thanks for advance & regards,Christian $ ibm <- get.hist.quote(instrument = "ibm", start = "1998-01-01") trying URL ` http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=ibm&a=01&b=01&c=1998&d=07&e=17&f=2002&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=ibm&x=.csv ' Content type `application/octet-stream' length unknown opened URL downloaded 48Kb time series starts 1998-01-02 Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
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