Re: [R] Downloading currency data from from Yahoo

[Tony Plate]

you simply had the wrong symbol.  a search on yahoo.com suggests the symbol might be 
"GBP=x",
getSymbols('GBP=x',src='yahoo')
str(get("GBP=X"))
An ‘xts’ object from 2007-01-03 to 2009-09-23 containing:
 Data: num [1:707, 1:6] 0.51 0.51 0.52 0.52 0.52 0.52 0.51 0.51 0.51 0.51 ...
- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
 ..$ : NULL
 ..$ : chr [1:6] "GBP=X.Open" "GBP=X.High" "GBP=X.Low" "GBP=X.Close" ...
 Indexed by objects of class: [Date] TZ: GMT
 xts Attributes:  
List of 2
$ src    : chr "yahoo"
$ updated: POSIXct[1:1], format: "2009-09-24 19:58:01"


-- Tony Plate

Bogaso wrote:
Hi,

I wanted to download some currency data using "quantmod" package, however
got following error :

getSymbols('USD/GBP',src='yahoo')
Error in download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m, 
: 
  cannot open URL
'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=USD/GBP&a=0&b=01&c=2007&d=8&e=24&f=2009&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=USD/GBP&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'

Can anyone please tell me how to get rid of that? Your help will be highly
appreciated.

Thanks


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