[R-sig-Debian] read.csv fails in R console in Ubuntu terminal but works in RStudio after R 3.6.3 upgrade to R 4.0.2

[Sam H]

This issue was now solved in TTR::stockSymbols() by package author
https://github.com/joshuaulrich/TTR/commit/98dec2b5aa68c3cee750397c7d11b164895e0140

Thanks for all the help and ideas.

Best,
Sam

On Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 05:33 Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org> wrote:

>
> On 15 July 2020 at 19:15, David Winsemius wrote:
> | (It does leave hanging the question of why `read.csv` is failing.)
>
> If I had to guess: due to the dark magic behind download.file() and the
> numerous different ways it could use (see the help page, it is truly
> impressive!) some of which involve `libcurl` (i.e. the C library from the
> curl project), some involve `curl` (the package for R), some involve `wget`
> (the binary), some involve internal code -- plus all that can cross with
> the
> SSL libraries use by curl and whatnot.
>
> Which is why my post suggested to separate the _download_ from the _file
> read_ aspect.
>
> Dirk
>
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