Marco, Updating your version of quantmod, as suggested by Josh, should work. Did for me.
Keith > On Apr 20, 2017, at 1:44 PM, Magicaltats Bianchi <marcolondo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I have in fact experienced exactly the same identical situation. Don't really > understand where the problem is coming from, let alone figuring out what to > do to resolve it! Any suggestions welcome. Marco > >> On 20 Apr 2017 7:00 p.m., "Keith Sabol" <sabo...@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? >> >> Thanks, in advance, for any assistance. >> >> Keith >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Finance@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance >> -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. >> -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions >> should go. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Finance@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions should go.