Fama-French File Transfer Blocked

[citynorman]

I'm getting a download error for the FF data library and I can't turn off the FF plots have to manually deactivate them by commenting out the code.

http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/ken.french/ftp/F-F_Research_Data_Factors_daily_CSV.zip
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Be good to either have those on some sort of S3 mirror or be able to turn off the FF plots.

def create_returns_tear_sheet(returns, positions=None,
                              live_start_date=None,
                              cone_std=(1.0, 1.5, 2.0),
                              benchmark_rets=None,
                              bootstrap=False,
                              return_fig=False,
                              plot_ff=True):
[...]
    if plot_ff:
        plotting.plot_rolling_fama_french(
            returns, ax=ax_rolling_risk)

see additional debug details here

[eigenfoo]

Hi there @citynorman, are you still experiencing this problem? Pandas data reader has just been fixed.

[eigenfoo]

Sounds like there isn't a problem anymore, closing this issue

[citynorman]

This seems to have gone away but I'd still like the flexibility to disable the external dependency.

[eigenfoo]

@citynorman could you open a new issue for disabling a the FF plots please? Sounds like an interesting point to discuss.