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

[Joshua Ulrich]

An updated version of quantmod that addresses this issue is on CRAN now.

On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Paul Gilbert <pgilbert902 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The discussion on R-pkg-devel has been about how to fix default
> download.file behaviour that has previously worked on all platforms, and is
> now broken by a very recent change at the St Louis Fed. A method working a
> few days ago would not be a guarantee that it still works. Before people go
> overboard changing their workflow, let me point out that this can likely be
> fixed by a user setting
>
>    options(download.file.method="libcurl")
> or
>    options(download.file.method="wget")
> or
>    options(download.file.method="wininet")
>
> See ?download.file  for more options, which will be platform specific (but
> maybe not as specific as using an excel macro).
>
> The package developer problem is slightly different. That problem, the
> problem that Joshua is working on, is that the default method no longer
> works. So either the default method has to be fixed or users need to be
> directed to some solution that will depend on their platform.
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 07/03/2015 12:05 PM, Daniel Melendez 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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