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quantmod error downloading .AORD data
2 messages · Sean Carmody, Wind
It seems that google does not supply the csv download link for AORD. You can check this by yourself. There is a Download to Spreadsheet link in http://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=NASDAQ:MSFT But no such link in http://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=INDEXASX:.AORD If you do need AORD data, try this: getSymbols("^AORD")
Sean Carmody wrote:
I have been having trouble getting quantmod to return data for certain
series. An examle is for ".AORD" (the Australian All Ordinaries index).
The following call:
getSymbols(".AORD", src="google")
results in this error message:
Error in download.file(paste(google.URL, "q=", Symbols.name,
"&startdate=",
:
cannot open URL '
http://finance.google.com/finance/historical?q=.AORD&startdate=Jan+01,+2007&enddate=Jun+10,+2009&output=csv
'
In addition: Warning message:
In download.file(paste(google.URL, "q=", Symbols.name, "&startdate=", :
cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
The problem seems to be with the "output=csv" part of the url, since
pasting
http://finance.google.com/finance/historical?q=.AORD&startdate=Jan+01,+2007&enddate=Jun+10,+2009into
a browser works fine.
Of course, the same problem doesn't always arise, as with the example from
the documentation:
getSymbols("MSFT", src="google")
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Regards,
Sean.
--
Sean Carmody
The Stubborn Mule
http://www.stubbornmule.net
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