[R-SIG-Finance] An Issue with quantmod

[Robert Sherry]

Josh or anybody else,

First I want to thank Josh for his attention to this bug. I looked at 
the following URL:
     https://github.com/joshuaulrich/quantmod/issues/197
and I see the following:

I just pushed an update to the|197_getQuote|branch. Please test and 
provide feedback!

There is one minor issue regarding the "Last Time" field. It's currently 
in your local timezone, not the exchange timezone. The fix needs to 
account for the possibility that users may request multiple symbols, and 
those symbols may be from exchanges in different timezones. You cannot 
mix timezones in a|POSIXct|vector, so we need to check whether all the 
timezones are the same, and convert them to a common timezone if they 
are not.


What I do not know is how to get this update? I have run the following 
command:  update.packages()
However, this command updates all packages and I do not believe I can 
specify the particular branch 197_getQuote. What should I do?

Bob Sherry


On 11/14/2017 9:11 AM, Joshua Ulrich wrote:
> 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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