[R] new error with QuantMod getSymbols

[Joshua Ulrich]

You didn't provide the file "lista.csv", so it's not possible to
reproduce any of these errors.  And there's no call to getSymbols in
your code.  You use loadSymbols, and I am not familiar with that
function.

That said, this sounds like an issue with some of the data being sent
by Yahoo Finance.
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Adolfo Yanes <adolfoyanes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I use getSymbols function daily to run some models with stock data. Today
> when I tried to update the stock info i get this error
>
> Error in charToDate(x) :
>   character string is not in a standard unambiguous format
>
> Sometimes I get it after 2 symbols, other times after 150 symbols, another
> time after 40 symbols, then after 203 symbols.
>
> The code for the symbol list is:
>
> lista<-read.csv("lista.csv", header=FALSE)
>
>
>
> lista.list.ana<-vector('list',nrow(lista))
>
> names(lista.list.ana) <- lista[,1]
>
> lista.sum<-as.vector(lista[,1])
>
>
> ##actualizar la lista
>
> lista_simbolos<-download_symbols(lista.sum, lista.list.ana)
>
>
>
> *The code for the function download_symbols is:*
>
>
> download_symbols<- function(lista.sum.,lista.list.ana..){
>
>   newnames.<- c("Open", "High", "Low", "Close", "Volume", "Adjusted")
>
> for (m in 1:length(lista.sum.))
>
>
> {
>
> print(paste(c("Downloading symbol ", lista.sum.[m], ". ", length(lista.sum.
> )-m, " symbols missing"), sep="", collapse=""))
>
> temp<-get(loadSymbols(lista.sum.[m]))
>
> names(temp)<-newnames.
>
> #lista.list.ana..[[m]]<-loadSymbols(lista.sum.[m])
>
> lista.list.ana..[[m]]<-temp
>
> }
>
>  return(lista.list.ana..)
>
> }
>
>
> Is it something wrong with yahoo? I tried google and got another error
> Error in `colnames<-`(`*tmp*`, value = c("Open", "High", "Low", "Close",  :
>   length of 'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent
>
> Thanks for your help
>
>
> --
> Adolfo Yanes Musetti
>
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