[R] getDividents() doesn't work

[Joshua Ulrich]

You need to assign the result to an object.

vox_div <- quantmod::getDividends("VOX")

You should check to see if the dividends are split-adjusted or not.
Yahoo has changed that several times over the years. Use the
`split.adjust` argument to get the (un)adjusted dividends. The boolean
may be backward because of Yahoo's changes.

Best,
Josh

On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 11:48 AM Phil Smith via R-help
<r-help using r-project.org> wrote:
>
> Hi R-Help People!
>
> I'm using the current version of R for Ubuntu: R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23) -- "Funny-Looking Kid."
>
> I'm using the quantmod package and am having difficulty with the getDividends() function from the quantmod package.
>
> Here is my code:
>
> > library(quantmod)
>
> >
> > getDividends( "VOX" )
>
> Here is the output:
> Warning message:
> In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote, :
> incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/download/VOX?period1=-2208988800&period2=1663545600&interval=1d&events=split'>
>
> There was not an object in my work space like "VOC.div" or anything like that, so I'm pretty sure getDividends failed completely....
>
> .... except for the slight possiblity that I did something wrong!
>
> Can somebody please tell me how to get getDividends to work?
>
> Thank you!
> Daryl
> Daryl's Rural Roadside Honor System Vegetable and Flower Stand and Occasional Dairy Produce
> Rural area, USA
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