[R-SIG-Finance] getSymbols for FRED in quantmod has stopped working???

[Paulo Grahl]

There's also a package FredR. Last time I checked (few months ago) it was
working.

https://github.com/jcizel/FredR

On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Daniel Melendez <
danielmelendez at alum.northwestern.edu> wrote:

> As a suggestion ( although not that efficient ) there is an excel macro
> that can download the information.  I'm not sure if you're aware of it or
> not but just thought I'd mention it just in case.
>
> https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred-addin/
>
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Joshua Ulrich <josh.m.ulrich at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 3:17 AM, Alexander Gracian <agracian at yahoo.co.uk>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > I have started getting an error when using getSymbols for FRED in
> > quantmod. It was working fine a few weeks ago. I'm using R on a Mac:
> > > getSymbols("CPIAUCSL", src="FRED")Error in
> download.file(paste(FRED.URL,
> > "/", Symbols[[i]], "/", "downloaddata/",  :   cannot open URL '
> >
> http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CPIAUCSL/downloaddata/CPIAUCSL.csv
> > '
> > > If I paste the URL in the error message into a browser it downloads the
> > csv fine, so I think the url is ok.It also works ok for other sources,
> such
> > as yahoo etc.
> >
> > The FRED http:// URLs now redirect to https://.  That causes issues
> > with the default method for download.file on some platforms.  I'm
> > aware of the issue and working on a fix.
> >
> > See the conversation on R-package-devel if you're interested in the
> > details:
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2015q3/000193.html
> >
> > > Any insights would be appreciated.
> > > Thanks,Alex
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