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-----Original Message----- From: Henrique Dallazuanna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:17 PM To: Shubha Vishwanath Karanth Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] Downloading Yahoo data You are connecting to the internet trougth a proxy? On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Shubha Vishwanath Karanth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi R, > > > > I am trying to download the data from R. I give the below command. > > > >> library(fImport) > >> yahooSeries("IBM") > > trying URL > 'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=IBM&a=7&b=08&c=2007&d=7&e=07&f=2008&; > g=d&x=.csv' > > Error in download.file(url = url, destfile = file, method = method) : > > cannot open URL > 'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=IBM&a=7&b=08&c=2007&d=7&e=07&f=2008&; > g=d&x=.csv' > > In addition: Warning message: > > In download.file(url = url, destfile = file, method = method) : > > unable to connect to 'chart.yahoo.com' on port 80. > > Error: cannot get a slot ("data") from an object of type "character" > > In addition: Warning message: > > trying to get slot "data" from an object of a basic class ("character") > with no slots > > > > > > The problem is related with connection of R with the internet. But my > port 80 is opened. Then also the error persists. > > > > And also, the link is accessible in my PC via the direct internet. How > do I make this work? > > > > Many Thanks, > > Shubha > > > > This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged i...{{dropped:13}} > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged i...{{dropped:10}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
