Error with getSymbols

[rabarros01]

Description

For about two weeks I have been trying to download stock prices from Yahoo Finance using "getSymbols" in quantmod, and for many many stock prices I get the following error message

Warning: Unable to import “UNH”.
argument "conn" is missing, with no default

where UNH is just one of the tickers I get the error message above

Expected behavior

This error should not appear, and the stock prices should be obtainable.

Minimal, reproducible example

For example, the code I am running is

window = 2000
first.date = Sys.Date() - window
last.date = Sys.Date()
freq.data = 'daily'

tickers = c("^GSPC","ACN","BABA","GOOGL","BRK-B","UNH")
data.stocks = getSymbols(tickers, from = first.date, to = last.date, periodicity = "daily")
BRK.B = get("BRK-B")
data = cbind(Cl(GSPC),Cl(ACN),Cl(BABA),Cl(GOOGL),Cl(BRK.B),Cl(UNH))

Kind regards,
rabarros01

[joshuaulrich]

Have you updated to the latest development version? This should have been fixed in #333.

[BlueFx]

Hi,
I got the same problem. I use the version 0.4.18 (think it is the latest one).

[joshuaulrich]

0.4.18 is the latest on CRAN. The latest development version is 0.4.18.1.

[rabarros01]

Hi,

just to let everyone know that the issue has been fixed in quantmod

Kind regards,
rabarros01

[joshuaulrich]

Thanks for following up!