Getsymbols cannot download all files

SPY download failed after two attempts. Error message: HTTP error I have checked windows defender to see it is not being blocked by the firewall, it is an exception and is allowed across the firewall, I have deleted the R idle and downloaded version 4 and updated R studio, still no luck.

It is baffling? Sign in to your account. The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:. Thanks for the report. Looks like the download URL might have changed. I'll investigate. Sorry, something went wrong. It's a hack from this page. The original link is much longer.

Maybe could work as temporary fix. Sometimes It is down as you said , Sometimes it is throwing error. The result is inconsistent. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Manoj Kumar Manoj Kumar 4, 1 1 gold badge 21 21 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges. This doesn't answer the question. Check github. But until the package from CRAN is showing errors, we all have to find an alternative to pursue smoothly what we are working on.

Functions to load and manage Symbols in specified environment. Used by specifyModel to retrieve symbols specified in first step of modelling procedure. Not a true S3 method, but methods for different data sources follow an S3-like naming convention. Additional methods can be added by simply adhering to the convention.

As of 0. Defaults to TRUE. Sorry, something went wrong. Was going to open a new entry, but saw this one which is maybe the enhancement I was thinking about. Error: delisted download failed after two attempts. Error message: HTTP error Wouldn't it be better if it continues with all symbols and spits out the error s at the end?

Companies are delisted often and we do not always know exactly when that happened. Finishing the list and issuing a message like 'X, Y, Z failed' will help us users update our records and not ask for a delisted symbol again. I started working on it, then ran into the issue I described in my first comment. Removing dummy. One consequence of this change is that getSymbols calls for a single ticker that used to error will now only warn and possibly error somewhere after the download e.

Those things need to be tested and addressed before this is merged.