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BatchGetSymbols -> GetSP500Stocks() -> Error: Table has inconsistent number of columns. Do you want fill = TRUE?

I've been working with the R package BatchGetSymbols and it normally works quite nice. Today my workflow is failing on the GetSP500Stocks() function with the message "Error: Table has inconsistent number of columns. Do you want fill = TRUE?".

Is anyone else seeing this as of today?

install.packages("BatchGetSymbols")

library(BatchGetSymbols)

df.SP500 <- GetSP500Stocks()

GetSP500Stocks() Error: Table has inconsistent number of columns. Do you want fill = TRUE?

Solution

  • Author here. This is an issue with the HTML table in wikipedia. I just fixed it in github and it should go to CRAN soon. Try this:

    devtools::install_github('msperlin/BatchGetSymbols')

library(BatchGetSymbols)

df.SP500 <- GetSP500Stocks()

    Btw, next time, post an issue in github and I'll fix it.

    Best,