2014-09-18 9:49 GMT+02:00 Samo Pahor <[email protected]>:
> Hi,
>
> I am facing issues with downloading historical data from yahoo using
> quantmod this morning:
> [1] "BAL"
> Error in download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m, :
> cannot open URL
> 'http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=BAL&a=8&b=17&c=2014&d=8&e=18&f=2014&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=BAL&x=.csv'
> In addition: Warning message:
> In download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m, :
> cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
>
> To me it looks like yahoo change urls (again?)
> rm(BAL)
> getSymbols("BAL")
[1] "BAL"
> tail(BAL)
BAL.Open BAL.High BAL.Low BAL.Close BAL.Volume BAL.Adjusted
2014-09-09 43.50 44.23 43.50 44.03 12600 44.03
2014-09-10 43.95 45.24 43.95 45.07 30500 45.07
2014-09-11 44.67 45.84 44.67 45.69 43000 45.69
2014-09-12 45.45 46.04 45.40 45.61 29600 45.61
2014-09-15 44.76 44.76 44.00 44.17 13500 44.17
2014-09-16 43.99 44.13 43.83 44.04 8900 44.04
looks ok.
Best regards,
Daniel
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