[Rd] get.hist.quote not connecting to yahoo (PR#3188)

[alexg at trwim.com]

Full_Name: Alexander Gracian
Version: 1.7
OS: windows XP
Submission from: (NULL) (217.158.140.82)



Since yesterday morning get.hist.quote in tseries has not been connecting to
yahoo 90% of the time. Is this a problem or change at Yahoo's end?

Alex

Example of R output...

Tring to pulling in 30 days of pricestrying URL
`http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=ANL.L&a=4&b=04&c=2003&d=5&e=03&f=2003&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=ANL.L&x=.csv'
unable to connect to 'chart.yahoo.com' on port 80.
Error in download.file(url, destfile, method = method) : 
        cannot open URL
`http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=ANL.L&a=4&b=04&c=2003&d=5&e=03&