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Nguinasso
Nguinasso

Reputation: 21

Workaround to Quantmod getDividends which apparently stopped working Jan 16, 2020

My R program started failing Jan 16

 quantmod::getDividends('BBY')
gives:

Error in vapply(parse(text = fr[, 2]), eval, numeric(1)) : 
  values must be length 1,
 but FUN(X[[1]]) result is length 2

Upvotes: 2

Views: 200

Answers (1)

Joshua Ulrich
Joshua Ulrich

Reputation: 176648

Yahoo Finance changed the split ratio delimiter from "/" to ":". For example, a 2-for-1 split was 1/2 but is now "2:1". This broke getSplits() and getDividends() (which called getSplits()).

This has been fixed in quantmod 0.4-16, which is on CRAN now. Windows binaries should be available over the next few days.

Upvotes: 3

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