getSymbols.oanda fails due to unexpected response from oanda.com #388
Description
Description
getSymbols.oanda() and functions that call it such as getFX and getMetals() fail with a warning message that they are unable to import data and error messages indicating that unexpected, unparseable output was received from oanda.com:
getSymbols.oanda("EUR/USD",from="2023-07-01",to="2023-07-07",auto.assign=FALSE)
Warning: Unable to import “EUR/USD”.
lexical error: invalid char in json text.
<html lang="en"
(right here) ------^
Error in getSymbols.oanda("EUR/USD", from = "2023-07-01", to = "2023-07-07", :
object 'fr' not found
Expected behavior
Functions return price data from oanda.com
Minimal, reproducible example
library(quantmod)
getFX("CAD/USD")
getSymbols.oanda("EUR/USD",from="2023-07-01",to="2023-07-07",auto.assign=FALSE)
getMetals(c("gold","XPD"))
Session Info
R version 4.2.2 Patched (2022-11-10 r83330)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas/libblas.so.3.10.0
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.10.0
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] quantmod_0.4.20 TTR_0.24.3 xts_0.12.2 zoo_1.8-11
[5] data.table_1.14.4
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.2.2 curl_4.3.3 grid_4.2.2 jsonlite_1.8.3
[5] lattice_0.20-45