I just downloaded the package Quantmod and have been playing with getSymbols. I want to be able to get data for multiple stocks as in this question: getSymbols and using lapply, Cl, and merge to extract close prices.
Unfortuantely, when I try to duplicate the answer:
tickers <- c("SPY","DIA","IWM","SMH","OIH","XLY",
"XLP","XLE","XLI","XLB","XLK","XLU")
getSymbols(tickers, from="2001-03-01", to="2011-03-11")
I get the following error message:
Error in download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m, :
cannot open URL
'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=SPY&a=2&b=01&c=2001&d=2&e=11&f=2011&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=SPY&x=.csv'
In addition: Warning message:
In download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m,
: cannot open: HTTP status was '0 (null)'
Here is my sessionInfo()
R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] quantmod_0.4-0 TTR_0.22-0 xts_0.9-7 zoo_1.7-10 Defaults_1.1-1
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_3.0.2 lattice_0.20-23 tools_3.0.2