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Issues with FredR #3
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Hi, I have exactly the same issue ! Louis |
Just use: However, dude to the HTTP -> HTTPS which you must make changes to your code and you cannot use the getSymbols function as of right now. Some edits I found through StackOverflow...with some of my modifications. temp = tempfile() Don't worry, I voted the contributor up. Hope the issue gets resolved soon and that this works for you'll! |
Hi - first, thanks for putting this together. Second, the examples on the help page are not working (perhaps a HTTP-> HTTPS thing?). Getting:
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Hi, I was able to make things work by not using the library at Github, but by downloading the FredR_Master zip file, and alter the initialization function such that http was replaced by https. That made it work. Thank you in advance ! |
hello, i did what you suggested below. Fix("FredR") and then change the root variable to https. I still get the following error.gdp.series <- fred$series.search("GDP") |
I've tried the fix("FredR") approach, but I can't seem to get it to work for me. It's still trying to load "http://api.stlouisfed.org". I'm open to any suggestions. |
Probably not the best but I got it to work by
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Thanks wmatwijec, I think I'm able to follow these steps. In the meantime, I stumbled through some other steps that seem to have worked for me:
Of course, now I've realized that some of my other scripts (borrowed from a fredplot example on github) use a xmlTreeParse function that doesn't work well with https, but I think I've found a fix for that issue on stackoverflow. |
Hi:
I am fairly new to R but have followed your instructions on devtool installation and I believe successfully installed FredR and have an api key. However when I follow your instructions on fred <- FredR(api.key) I get an error message that FredR function cant be found. Specifically here is what I get:
Installing FredR
"C:/PROGRA
1/R/R-311.3/bin/x64/R" --vanilla CMD INSTALL "C:/Users/Ardavan/AppData/Local/Temp/Rtmp2BKcCm/devtools1a00c13091/jcizel-FredR-cef0c9c"--library="C:/Users/Ardavan/Documents/R/win-library/3.1" --install-tests
** R
** inst
** tests
** preparing package for lazy loading
Warning: replacing previous import by 'dplyr::between' when loading 'FredR'
Warning: replacing previous import by 'dplyr::last' when loading 'FredR'
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
*** arch - i386
Warning: replacing previous import by 'dplyr::between' when loading 'FredR'
Warning: replacing previous import by 'dplyr::last' when loading 'FredR'
*** arch - x64
Warning: replacing previous import by 'dplyr::between' when loading 'FredR'
Warning: replacing previous import by 'dplyr::last' when loading 'FredR'
Can you assist?
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