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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