`quantmod`'s `getSymbols.FRED` not working as expected

Question

The following lines are from quantmod's manual (p54):

library(quantmod)
getSymbols('CPIAUCNS',src='FRED')

returns:

Error in download.file(paste(FRED.URL, "/", Symbols[[i]], "/", "downloaddata/",  : 
  cannot open URL 'http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CPIAUCNS/downloaddata/CPIAUCNS.csv'

How to fix this?

(using latest version of both R and quantmod)

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 14 '15 at 16:34

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Use https:// for the URL instead.

answered Jul 14 '15 at 16:34

erasmortg

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thanks, but how do you do this? I mean in practice – user189035 Jul 14 '15 at 16:35
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Check out this answer http://stackoverflow.com/a/31197196/3285115 – erasmortg Jul 14 '15 at 16:36

`quantmod`'s `getSymbols.FRED` not working as expected

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