[R] Quantmod cant download data

[Christofer Bogaso]

Hi again,

I generally use Quantmod package to download stock data. However
recently I observed that it is unable to download the data although
Source file is available.

Below is Error I found when I use Quantmod :

> library(quantmod)
> getSymbols("^NSEI")
Error in download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m, :
cannot open URL
'http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=^NSEI&a=0&b=01&c=2007&d=3&e=18&f=2017&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=^NSEI&x=.csv'

However the Source file
"http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=^NSEI&a=0&b=01&c=2007&d=3&e=18&f=2017&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=^NSEI&x=.csv"
is available for manual download.

R version :

R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31) -- "Sincere Pumpkin Patch"
Copyright (C) 2016 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Sierra 10.12.3

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_0.4-7 TTR_0.23-1 xts_0.9-7 zoo_1.8-0
data.table_1.10.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_3.3.2 lattice_0.20-35

Could you please help to resolve this issue.

Thanks for your time.

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[Joshua Ulrich]

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[Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)]

The download works for me without any warning message. The following is my session info.

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.3.3 (2017-03-06)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:

[1] quantmod_0.4-7 TTR_0.23-1 xts_0.9-7 zoo_1.7-14

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):

[1] tools_3.3.3 grid_3.3.3 lattice_0.20-35
>

And here is the download result.


> getSymbols("SPY", verbose = TRUE)
As of 0.4-0, 'getSymbols' uses env=parent.frame() and
auto.assign=TRUE by default.

This behavior will be phased out in 0.5-0 when the call will
default to use auto.assign=FALSE. getOption("getSymbols.env") and
getOptions("getSymbols.auto.assign") are now checked for alternate defaults

This message is shown once per session and may be disabled by setting
options("getSymbols.warning4.0"=FALSE). See ?getSymbols for more details.
downloading SPY .....

trying URL 'http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=SPY&a=0&b=01&c=2007&d=3&e=18&f=2017&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=SPY&x=.csv'
Content type 'text/csv' length unknown
downloaded 187 KB

done.
[1] "SPY"
>


Hope this is useful,

Dan

Daniel Nordlund, PhD
Research and Data Analysis Division
Services & Enterprise Support Administration
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services