I reloaded quantmod, and my script works now fine.
Still, one cannot download prices from the yahoo finance website to a xls
file for free anymore.
Thank you all.
Alec
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 12:40 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 22 November 2024 at 12:13, Anatoly Schmidt wrote:
> | I had to delete the screenshot as my message below violates the size
> constraint
> | imposed by r-sig-finance. It can be seen on the yahoo finance website.
>
> Yep. And we are not fan of screen shots either.
>
> | On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 12:07 PM Anatoly Schmidt <as8...@nyu.edu> wrote:
> |
> | Thank you Dirk,
> | I concluded that yahoo requires premium service after seeing the
> lock on
> | the download link. Here is a screenshot. When I click on the lock,
> yahoo
> | invites me to subscribe a premium service:
> |
> |
> | When I run your example
> | X <- getSymbols("SPY", from="2024-11-01"),
>
> You can't do the assignment unless you set the option I showed in my
> initial email.
>
> | I have the following output:
> |
> | Warning: SPY download failed; trying again.
> | Error in getSymbols.yahoo(Symbols = "SPY", env = <environment>,
> verbose = FALSE, :
> | Unable to import “SPY”.
> | SPY download failed after two attempts. Error message:
> |
> | HTTP error 401.
>
> So we need to debug this.
>
> For kicks, I just installed quantmod and its five depedencies on a fresh
> r2u
> container running Ubuntu 24.04. No options, no nothing:
>
> root@d17b04bef87d:/# R -q
> > library(quantmod)
> Loading required package: xts
> Loading required package: zoo
>
> Attaching package: ‘zoo’
>
> The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’:
>
> as.Date, as.Date.numeric
>
> Loading required package: TTR
> Registered S3 method overwritten by 'quantmod':
> method from
> as.zoo.data.frame zoo
> > getSymbols("SPY", from="2024-11-01")
> [1] "SPY"
> > SPY
> SPY.Open SPY.High SPY.Low SPY.Close SPY.Volume SPY.Adjusted
> 2024-11-01 571.32 575.55 570.62 571.04 45667500 571.04
> 2024-11-04 571.18 572.50 567.89 569.81 38217000 569.81
> 2024-11-05 570.74 576.74 570.52 576.70 39478300 576.70
> 2024-11-06 589.20 591.93 585.39 591.04 68182000 591.04
> 2024-11-07 593.08 596.65 593.00 595.61 47233200 595.61
> 2024-11-08 596.17 599.64 596.17 598.19 46444900 598.19
> 2024-11-11 599.81 600.17 597.00 598.76 37586800 598.76
> 2024-11-12 598.68 599.29 594.37 596.90 43006100 596.90
> 2024-11-13 597.37 599.23 594.96 597.19 47388600 597.19
> 2024-11-14 597.32 597.81 592.65 593.35 38904100 593.35
> 2024-11-15 589.72 590.20 583.86 585.75 75988800 585.75
> 2024-11-18 586.22 589.49 585.34 588.15 37084100 588.15
> 2024-11-19 584.71 591.04 584.03 590.30 49412000 590.30
> 2024-11-20 590.38 590.79 584.63 590.50 50032600 590.50
> 2024-11-21 593.40 595.12 587.45 593.67 46565100 593.67
> >
>
> So the arrow still points at your setup.
>
> Dirk
>
>
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