getSymbols.oanda HTTP error 404

[mgpap]

I try to get some symbols from Oanda and I can't. I have tried also Google and Yahoo and the result is the same. I try to execute the following and what I get is an error.

eurusd  <-  getSymbols("EUR/USD", src = "oanda", auto.assign = FALSE)
Error in open.connection(con, "rb") : HTTP error 404.

[joshuaulrich]

Thanks for the report. I can replicate.

Google no longer provides price data. I checked Yahoo Finance and they specify the EUR/USD pair as EURUSD=X, so getSymbols("USDEUR=X", src = "yahoo") works.

[mgpap]

Thanks for the reply.

Yes,now I can get from Yahoo. But,what about oanda? I still can't use getSymbols with oanda. Is it maybe because oanda v1 REST API will cease to function?

[joshuaulrich]

@MihalisPapatsimpas I just pushed a branch that works for me. Please test to see if it works for you too!

[mgpap]

Thank you @joshuaulrich for your help! To test it,I installed the quantmod package from your repository using the following: devtools::install_github("joshuaulrich/quantmod"). The error still appears. Is this the right way to test it?

Thanks again!

[joshuaulrich]

No, that will just pull the current HEAD of master. My patch is on the branch 225_getsymbols_oanda. I think you can pull and install that via: devtools::install_github("joshuaulrich/quantmod", ref="225_getsymbols_oanda"). If that doesn't work, please read the devtools docs or search on Google and/or StackOverflow. I don't use devtools, so I won't be much help.

[mgpap]

I installed the patch in 2 ways. The one you suggested and:
githubinstall :: gh_install_packages("quantmod",ref="225_getsymbols_oanda"). Both work but the error remains.

[joshuaulrich]

Is it exactly the same error? I just tried on a different machine and got "HTTP error 400". 400 is "bad request", and 404 is "not found".

[mgpap]

No,sorry i didn't mention it. It is "Error in open.connection(con, "rb") : HTTP error 400" .

[joshuaulrich]

I just pushed an update that corrects a mistake I made. It works for me now, I promise. :)

[mgpap]

Yes, now it works perfect!!

Thanks for your time!