The download works for me without any warning message. The following is my session info.
> sessionInfo() R version 3.3.3 (2017-03-06) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1 locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] quantmod_0.4-7 TTR_0.23-1 xts_0.9-7 zoo_1.7-14 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_3.3.3 grid_3.3.3 lattice_0.20-35 > And here is the download result. > getSymbols("SPY", verbose = TRUE) As of 0.4-0, 'getSymbols' uses env=parent.frame() and auto.assign=TRUE by default. This behavior will be phased out in 0.5-0 when the call will default to use auto.assign=FALSE. getOption("getSymbols.env") and getOptions("getSymbols.auto.assign") are now checked for alternate defaults This message is shown once per session and may be disabled by setting options("getSymbols.warning4.0"=FALSE). See ?getSymbols for more details. downloading SPY ..... trying URL 'http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=SPY&a=0&b=01&c=2007&d=3&e=18&f=2017&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=SPY&x=.csv' Content type 'text/csv' length unknown downloaded 187 KB done. [1] "SPY" > Hope this is useful, Dan Daniel Nordlund, PhD Research and Data Analysis Division Services & Enterprise Support Administration Washington State Department of Social and Health Services > -----Original Message----- > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Joshua > Ulrich > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 9:16 AM > To: Christofer Bogaso > Cc: r-help > Subject: Re: [R] Quantmod cant download data > > See https://github.com/joshuaulrich/quantmod/issues/149 > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Christofer Bogaso > <bogaso.christo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi again, > > > > I generally use Quantmod package to download stock data. However > > recently I observed that it is unable to download the data although > > Source file is available. > > > > Below is Error I found when I use Quantmod : > > > >> library(quantmod) > >> getSymbols("^NSEI") > > Error in download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", > from.m, : > > cannot open URL > > > 'http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=^NSEI&a=0&b=01&c=2007&d= > 3&e=18&f=2017&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=^NSEI&x=.csv' > > > > However the Source file > > > "http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=^NSEI&a=0&b=01&c=2007&d= > 3&e=18&f=2017&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=^NSEI&x=.csv" > > is available for manual download. > > > > R version : > > > > R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31) -- "Sincere Pumpkin Patch" > > Copyright (C) 2016 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing > > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit) > > > >> sessionInfo() > > R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31) > > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit) > > Running under: macOS Sierra 10.12.3 > > > > locale: > > [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF- > 8 > > > > attached base packages: > > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > > > other attached packages: > > [1] quantmod_0.4-7 TTR_0.23-1 xts_0.9-7 zoo_1.8-0 > > data.table_1.10.0 > > > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > > [1] grid_3.3.2 lattice_0.20-35 > > > > Could you please help to resolve this issue. > > > > Thanks for your time. > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > -- > Joshua Ulrich | about.me/joshuaulrich > FOSS Trading | www.fosstrading.com > R/Finance 2017 | www.rinfinance.com > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.