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get.hist.quote
2 messages · Jerry Pressnell, BBands
On 1/23/07, Jerry Pressnell <jpressnell at westnet.com.au> wrote:
I have been running this script regularly for some time. Recently the
following error message appeared.
Any suggestions to correct this change would be appreciated.
EWL<-get.hist.quote("EWL",start=(today <- Sys.Date())-350,quote="Cl")
trying URL 'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=EWL&a=1&b&c 06&d=0&e!&f
07&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=EWL&x=.csv'
Content type 'text/csv' length unknown
opened URL
downloaded 11Kb
Error in if (dat[n] != start) cat(format(dat[n], "time series starts
%Y-%m-%d\n")) :
missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
I received a similar message a few weeks ago. Apparently in was a
Yahoo! problem as it went away within an hour and I haven't seen it
since.
jab
John Bollinger, CFA, CMT www.BollingerBands.com If you advance far enough, you arrive at the beginning.