[R-SIG-Finance] Question / Bug Report with quantmod

[Joshua Ulrich]

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 8:55 PM, Ernest Stokely <wizardchef at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry if this is a neophyte question, but when I execute
>
> devtools::install_github("joshuaulrich/quantmod", ref="157_yahoo_502”)
>
> I get the following error message:
>
> "Installation failed: Could not find build tools necessary to build
> quantmod”
>
See the second-to-last bullet in the Installation section of quantmod's README:
https://github.com/joshuaulrich/quantmod#installation

> Help much appreciated.
>
> Ernie
>
> On May 17, 2017, at 4:30 PM, Joshua Ulrich <josh.m.ulrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Robert Sherry <rsherry8 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> When I run the following two commands:
>
>    library(quantmod)
>
>    d1=getDividends( "XOM" )
>
> I get the messages:
>
> Error in download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, Symbol.name, "&a=", from.m, "&b=",
> :
>  cannot open URL
> 'https://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=XOM&a=0&b=01&c=1970&d=4&e=17&f=2017&g=v&ignore=.csv'
> In addition: Warning message:
> In download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, Symbol.name, "&a=", from.m, "&b=",  :
>  cannot open: HTTP status was '502 Connection refused'
>
> I am using version 3.2.2 of R. If appropriate, I would be happy to report on
> bug at:
>
>    https://github.com/joshuaulrich/quantmod/issues
>
> Please comment.
>
> Had you clicked the link you provided, you would see that the first issue
> is:
> https://github.com/joshuaulrich/quantmod/issues/157
>
> Which is what you've reported.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>
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