CRAN release 0.4.20
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Remove check for Yahoo Finance cookies because the site no longer responds with a cookie, and that caused the connection attempt to fail. This affected
getSymbols()
,getDividends()
, andgetSplits()
. Thanks to several users for reporting, and especially to @pverspeelt and @alihru for investigating potential fixes! #358 -
Update
getSymbols.yahooj()
for changes to the web page. #312 -
Add
HL()
and supporting functions. These are analogues toHLC()
,OHLC()
, etc.Thanks for Karl Gauvin for the nudge to implement them. -
Add adjusted close to
getSymbols.tiingo()
output. Thanks to Ethan Smith for the suggestion and patch! #289, #345 -
Use a Date index for
getSymbols.tiingo()
daily data. Thanks to Ethan Smith for the report! #350 -
Remove unneeded arguments to the
getSymbols.tiingo()
implementation. Thanks to Ethan Smith for the suggestion and patch! #343, #343 -
Load dividends and splits data into the correct environment when the user provides a value for the
env
argument. The previous behavior always loaded the data into the environment the function was called from. Thanks to Stewart Wright for the report and patch! #33 -
Make
getOptionChain()
return all the fields that Yahoo Finance provides. Thanks to Adam Childers (@rhizomatican) for the patch! #318, #336 -
Add orats as a source for
getOptionChain()
. Thanks to Steve Bronder (@SteveBronder) for the suggestion and implementation! #325 -
Improve the error message when
getSymbols()
cannot import data for a symbol because the symbol is not valid or does not have historical data. Thanks to Peter Carl for the report. #333 -
Fix the
getMetals()
example in the documentation. The example section previously had an example ofgetFX()
. Thanks to Gerhard Nachtmann (@nachti) for the report and patch! #330 -
Fix
getQuote()
so it returns data when the ticker symbol contains an "&". Thanks to @pankaj3009 for the report! #324 -
Fix
addMACD()
whencol
is specified. Thanks to @nvalueanalytics for the report! #321