Hi Costas, it is working fine in my system. May be you should try with the latest version?
library(quantmod)
Loading required package: Defaults Loading required package: xts Loading required package: zoo Loading required package: TTR
getSymbols("GS10",src="FRED")
[1] "GS10"
sessionInfo()
R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13) Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_India.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_India.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_India.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_India.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] quantmod_0.3-16 TTR_0.20-3 xts_0.8-0 zoo_1.6-5 Defaults_1.1-1 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] grid_2.13.0 lattice_0.19-23 Thanks and regards, _____________________________________________________ Arun Kumar Saha, FRM QUANTITATIVE RISK AND HEDGE CONSULTING SPECIALIST Visit me at: http://in.linkedin.com/in/ArunFRM _____________________________________________________-- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/FRED-prob-tp3486372p3487735.html Sent from the Rmetrics mailing list archive at Nabble.com.