Re: [R] Constant (= wrong) historical quotes via get.hist.quote() from yahoo.finance

2012-11-23 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Marius Hofert wrote: Dear expeRts, I would like to download a time series of historical data from the ticker with symbol ROG.VX. Interestingly, I obtain constant values (138.3 for each day in the chosen period) although the yahoo.finance website tells me that the time

Re: [R] Constant (= wrong) historical quotes via get.hist.quote() from yahoo.finance

2012-11-23 Thread Marius Hofert
Dear Achim, Thanks a lot for your quick help. Indeed, I did not realize that the Download to Spreadsheet gives the wrong result, so it's really a Yahoo! Finance issue (too bad, an R issue would have been easier to fix :-) ). Thanks again, Marius Achim Zeileis achim.zeil...@uibk.ac.at writes:

[R] Constant (= wrong) historical quotes via get.hist.quote() from yahoo.finance

2012-11-22 Thread Marius Hofert
Dear expeRts, I would like to download a time series of historical data from the ticker with symbol ROG.VX. Interestingly, I obtain constant values (138.3 for each day in the chosen period) although the yahoo.finance website tells me that the time series is not at all constant. What's wrong?