[R-SIG-Finance] getSymbols for FRED in quantmod has stopped working???

[Daniel Melendez]

As a suggestion ( although not that efficient ) there is an excel macro
that can download the information.  I'm not sure if you're aware of it or
not but just thought I'd mention it just in case.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred-addin/

On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Joshua Ulrich <josh.m.ulrich at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 3:17 AM, Alexander Gracian <agracian at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I have started getting an error when using getSymbols for FRED in
> quantmod. It was working fine a few weeks ago. I'm using R on a Mac:
> > getSymbols("CPIAUCSL", src="FRED")Error in download.file(paste(FRED.URL,
> "/", Symbols[[i]], "/", "downloaddata/",  :   cannot open URL '
> http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CPIAUCSL/downloaddata/CPIAUCSL.csv
> '
> > If I paste the URL in the error message into a browser it downloads the
> csv fine, so I think the url is ok.It also works ok for other sources, such
> as yahoo etc.
>
> The FRED http:// URLs now redirect to https://.  That causes issues
> with the default method for download.file on some platforms.  I'm
> aware of the issue and working on a fix.
>
> See the conversation on R-package-devel if you're interested in the
> details:
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2015q3/000193.html
>
> > Any insights would be appreciated.
> > Thanks,Alex
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Daniel Melendez

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