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
>>
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