[R-SIG-Finance] quantmod getSymbols() failing on Yahoo

[Joshua Ulrich]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Keith Sabol <sabolkj at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been using getSymbols() to retrieve data from Yahoo for some time
> without difficulty.  Recently, I've been getting this error:
>
> getSymbols("IBM")
> Error in download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m,
>  :
>   cannot open URL '
> http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=IBM&a=0&b=01&c=2007&d=3&e=20&f=2017&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=IBM&x=.csv
> '
>
>
> Pasting this url into my browser works as expected:
>
> https://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=IBM&a=0&b=01&c=2007&d=3&e=20&f=2017&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=IBM&x=.csv
>
>
> Can someone suggest how I might find/edit the line in the quantmod code
> that would enable me to to switch to HTTPS until the package catches up?
>
The package caught up yesterday.  You need to upgrade to quantmod 0.4-8 on CRAN.

> Thanks, in advance, for any assistance.
>
> Keith
>
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