option_series.yahoo() subscript out of bounds

[rmonty7]

after loading the package and running an initial test, it looks like Yahoo may have altered the API. suggest remedial action or should i fork and fix. BTW, is there a better communications channel for something like this than creating an issue?

spyOptions <- option_series.yahoo('SPY')
Error in lapply(strsplit(opt, ""), function(.) gsub(",", "", gsub("N/A", :
subscript out of bounds
In addition: Warning message:
In readLines(paste(paste("http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s", Symbols, :
incomplete final line found on 'http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=SPY+Options'

[gsee]

Hi. Yes, yahoo changed their website and it broke quantmod::getOptionChain(), which this function uses. There's a proposed patch on the quantmod tracker (https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=5959&group_id=125&atid=544).

As far as where to submit bug reports/patches -- this github repo is just a read-only mirror of an R-Forge svn repository: https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/?group_id=316.

[rmonty7]

Garrett,

Thx for the response. So what is the recommended way to communicate with you and the others on the team and to see historical support threads pertaining to the FinancialInstrument (quantmod?) code?

Rob

From: Garrett See [mailto:notifications@github.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 10:15 PM
To: gsee/FinancialInstrument
Cc: rmonty7
Subject: Re: [FinancialInstrument] option_series.yahoo() subscript out of bounds (#1)

Hi. Yes, yahoo changed their website and it broke quantmod::getOptionChain(), which this function uses. There's a proposed patch on the quantmod tracker (https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=5959&group_id=125&atid=544 &aid=5959&group_id=125&atid=544).

As far as where to submit bug reports/patches -- this github repo is just a read-only mirror of an R-Forge svn repository: https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/?group_id=316.

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[rmonty7]

Garrett,

Also, I’ve found the forums on R-Forge and there seems to be no activity since 2012.09.06. Has the branding of the project changed or is there just no activity supporting the FinancialInstrument library…..or is it just that stable?

Rob

From: Garrett See [mailto:notifications@github.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 10:15 PM
To: gsee/FinancialInstrument
Cc: rmonty7
Subject: Re: [FinancialInstrument] option_series.yahoo() subscript out of bounds (#1)

Hi. Yes, yahoo changed their website and it broke quantmod::getOptionChain(), which this function uses. There's a proposed patch on the quantmod tracker (https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=5959&group_id=125&atid=544 &aid=5959&group_id=125&atid=544).

As far as where to submit bug reports/patches -- this github repo is just a read-only mirror of an R-Forge svn repository: https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/?group_id=316.

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[gsee]

If you want someone other than me to see it, you can post on the blotter forum (https://r-forge.r-project.org/forum/?group_id=316) or create a bug report or feature request (https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/?group_id=316). As you saw, the blotter forum doesn't get much activity. For discussion, the r-sig-finance mailing list is a more popular place to talk about these projects (https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance).

Agreed that there's not much development being done on FinancialInstrument these days, and I don't make any claims about its quality/stability, but I know that people are using it every day.

[rmonty7]

Garrett,

Thanks for the feedback and guidance. I just wanted to make sure that there was energy around this initiative before I started digging into it further.

Rob

From: Garrett See [mailto:notifications@github.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 9:05 AM
To: gsee/FinancialInstrument
Cc: rmonty7
Subject: Re: [FinancialInstrument] option_series.yahoo() subscript out of bounds (#1)

If you want someone other than me to see it, you can post on the blotter forum (https://r-forge.r-project.org/forum/?group_id=316) or create a bug report or feature request (https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/?group_id=316). As you saw, the blotter forum doesn't get much activity. For discussion, the r-sig-finance mailing list is a more popular place to talk about these projects (https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance).

Agreed that there's not much development being done on FinancialInstrument these days, and I don't make any claims about its quality/stability, but I know that people are using it every day.

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