Upstream changes:
Changes in 0.4-20 (2022-04-29)
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(), and getSplits(). 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 to HLC(), 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 of getFX(). Thanks to Gerhard Nachtmann
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() when col is specified. Thanks to @nvalueanalytics for the report! #321
Changes in 0.4-18 (2020-11-29)
Fix issues handling https:// in getSymbols.yahooj(). Thanks to @lobo1981 and @tchevri for the reports and @ethanbsmith for the suggestion to move from XML to xml2. #310#312
Fix getSymbols.yahoo(), getDividends(), and getSplits() so they all handle download errors and retry again. Thanks for @helgasoft for the report on getSymbols.yahoo() and @msfsalla for the report on getDividends() and getSplits(). #307#314
Add implied volatility and last trade date to getOptionChain() output. Thanks to @hd2581 and @romanlelek for the reports. And thanks to @rjvelasquezm for noticing the error when lastTradeDate is NULL. #224#304
Fix getOptionChain() to throw a warning and return NULL for every expiry that doesn’t have data. #299
Add “Defaults” handling to getQuote() and getQuote.yahoo(). Thanks to @ethanbsmith for the report. #291
Add Bid and Ask fields to the output from getQuote(). Thanks to @jrburl for the report and PR. #302
Fix “Defaults” to handle unexported function (e.g. getQuote.av(). Thanks to @helgasoft for the report. #316
importDefaults() doesn’t call get() on vector with length > 1. Thanks to Kurt Hornik for the report. #319
Changes in 0.4-17 (2020-03-31)
chartTheme() now works when quantmod is not attached. Thanks to Kurt Hornik for the report.
Changes in 0.4-16 (2020-03-08)
Remove disk I/O from getSymbols() and getQuote(). This avoids any disk contention, and makes the implementation pattern more consistent with other functions that import data. Thanks to Ethan Smith suggestion and PR. #280#281
Make getQuote() robust to symbols without data, so it does not error if one or more symbols are not found. Also return quotes in the same order as the ‘Symbols’ argument. Thanks to Ethan Smith feature request and PR. #279#282#288
Handle semicolon-delimited symbol string handling to main getQuote() function. This makes getQuote() consistent with getSymbols(). Thanks to Ethan Smith suggestion and PR. #284#285
Fix ex-dividend and pay date mapping. getQuote() returned the dividend pay date labeled as the ex-dividend date. Thanks to @matiasandina for the report. #287
Fix Yahoo Finance split ratio. The delimiter changed from “/” to “:”. For example, a 2-for-1 split was 1/2 but is now “2:1”. Thanks to @helgasoft for the report. #292
Error messages from getQuote.alphavantage() and getQuote.tiingo() no longer contain the API key when symbols can’t be found. #286
Fix getQuote.alphavantage() by replacing the defunct batch quote request with a loop over the single quote request. Thanks to @helgasoft for the report and patch. #296
Update getOptionChain() to handle empty volume or open interest Thank to @jrburl for the report and PR. #299#300
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