I didn't look into the yahoo.get.hist.quote, but the quantmod package has a
working simple solution with getSymbols:
library(quantmod)
getSymbols("AAPL")
> head(AAPL)
AAPL.Open AAPL.High AAPL.Low AAPL.Close AAPL.Volume AAPL.Adjusted
2007-01-03 86.29 86.58 81.90 83.80 44225700 83.80
2007-01-04 84.05 85.95 83.82 85.66 30259300 85.66
2007-01-05 85.77 86.20 84.40 85.05 29812200 85.05
2007-01-08 85.96 86.53 85.28 85.47 28468100 85.47
2007-01-09 86.45 92.98 85.15 92.57 119617800 92.57
2007-01-10 94.75 97.80 93.45 97.00 105460000 97.00
Examples of that and more (FX, FED/FRED, Financials(google),
Dividends(Yahoo), Quotes...) are at:
http://www.quantmod.com/examples http://www.quantmod.com/examples
And
http://www.quantmod.com/examples/intro
http://www.quantmod.com/examples/intro
HTH
Jeff
Bogaso wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I got some problems while was trying to download data from Yahoo using
> yahoo.get.hist.quote() function. My script is as follows :
>
> app <- yahoo.get.hist.quote("aapl", start="02/07/09", end="02/07/06",
> quote="close")
>
> However I got following error :
>
> trying URL
> 'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=aapl&a=6&b=09&c=0002&d=6&e=06&f=0002&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=aapl&x=.csv'
> Error in download.file(url, destfile) :
> cannot open URL
> 'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=aapl&a=6&b=09&c=0002&d=6&e=06&f=0002&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=aapl&x=.csv'
> In addition: Warning message:
> In download.file(url, destfile) :
> cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
>
> I got a similar thread in
> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/06/08/33770.html however, I could
> not figure out exactly what to do. Can anybody please help me?
>
> Regards,
>
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