This issue was now solved in TTR::stockSymbols() by package author https://github.com/joshuaulrich/TTR/commit/98dec2b5aa68c3cee750397c7d11b164895e0140
Thanks for all the help and ideas. Best, Sam On Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 05:33 Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 15 July 2020 at 19:15, David Winsemius wrote: > | (It does leave hanging the question of why `read.csv` is failing.) > > If I had to guess: due to the dark magic behind download.file() and the > numerous different ways it could use (see the help page, it is truly > impressive!) some of which involve `libcurl` (i.e. the C library from the > curl project), some involve `curl` (the package for R), some involve `wget` > (the binary), some involve internal code -- plus all that can cross with > the > SSL libraries use by curl and whatnot. > > Which is why my post suggested to separate the _download_ from the _file > read_ aspect. > > Dirk > > -- > https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian