[R-SIG-Finance] An Issue with quantmod

[Joshua Ulrich]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 8:09 AM, Robert Sherry <rsherry8 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I am using version 3.4.2 of R and I run the following two commands:
>      library(quantmod)
>      x=getQuote( "XOM" )
> and get the following error messages:
>
> Error in download.file(paste("https://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=",  :
>   cannot open URL
> 'https://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=XOM&f=d1t1l1c1p2ohgv'
> In addition: Warning message:
> In download.file(paste("https://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=", :
>   cannot open URL
> 'https://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=XOM&f=d1t1l1c1p2ohgv': HTTP status
> was '403 Forbidden'
>
> What should I do?
>
Search open issues (the function name and portion(s) of the error are
usually good search terms):
https://github.com/joshuaulrich/quantmod/issues/

And report a new issue if someone else already hasn't.  In this case,
it's already been reported and I'm working on a fix:
https://github.com/joshuaulrich/quantmod/issues/197

> Bob
>
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