getSymbols.yahoo() always throws "Error in new.session()" · Issue #358 · joshuaulrich/quantmod (original) (raw)

Patched quantmod on CRAN now

The source package for quantmod 0.4.20 has been released to CRAN! It may take another day or two for CRAN to build the Windows and macOS binaries, so users on those systems can install from source or wait for the binaries to be built.

Sponsors

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank those who started sponsoring me on GitHub today!

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Yahoo Finance alternative

I also want to mention an alternative to Yahoo Finance data. I've found the end of day data from tiingo to be higher quality and the endpoint is more stable than Yahoo Finance. You need to sign up to get a free API key, and that gives individuals free access with 500 requests/hour and 20,000 requests/day, up to 5GB of data/month.

Disclaimer: While I don't receive any referral compensation for pointing individuals to the Free Plan or Power Plan, I may receive compensation (I honestly don't remember how much) from them for new Commercial Plan customers who learned of tiingo through me. But you have to mention me when you join, I don't have an affiliate link or anything like that.