On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 8:55 PM, Ernest Stokely <wizardc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry if this is a neophyte question, but when I execute > > devtools::install_github("joshuaulrich/quantmod", ref="157_yahoo_502”) > > I get the following error message: > > "Installation failed: Could not find build tools necessary to build > quantmod” > See the second-to-last bullet in the Installation section of quantmod's README: https://github.com/joshuaulrich/quantmod#installation
> Help much appreciated. > > Ernie > > On May 17, 2017, at 4:30 PM, Joshua Ulrich <josh.m.ulr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Robert Sherry <rsher...@comcast.net> wrote: > > When I run the following two commands: > > library(quantmod) > > d1=getDividends( "XOM" ) > > I get the messages: > > Error in download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, Symbol.name, "&a=", from.m, "&b=", > : > cannot open URL > 'https://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=XOM&a=0&b=01&c=1970&d=4&e=17&f=2017&g=v&ignore=.csv' > In addition: Warning message: > In download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, Symbol.name, "&a=", from.m, "&b=", : > cannot open: HTTP status was '502 Connection refused' > > I am using version 3.2.2 of R. If appropriate, I would be happy to report on > bug at: > > https://github.com/joshuaulrich/quantmod/issues > > Please comment. > > Had you clicked the link you provided, you would see that the first issue > is: > https://github.com/joshuaulrich/quantmod/issues/157 > > Which is what you've reported. > > Thanks, > > Bob > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > > > > -- > Joshua Ulrich | about.me/joshuaulrich > FOSS Trading | www.fosstrading.com > R/Finance 2017 | www.rinfinance.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- Joshua Ulrich | about.me/joshuaulrich FOSS Trading | www.fosstrading.com R/Finance 2017 | www.rinfinance.com _______________________________________________ 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.