Error in new.session() : Could not establish session after 5 attempts

Question

I've been facing in R the error message for days using getSymbols of the quantmod package:

Error in new.session() : Could not establish session after 5 attempts.

getSymbols(tick, from = date_from,  to = date_to, warnings = FALSE, auto.assign = TRUE)

The same issue applies to:

getSymbols(tick, from = date_from,  to = date_to, warnings = FALSE, auto.assign = TRUE, src="yahoo")

I've also been getting this. It seems to be a server-side problem. — Allan Cameron, Apr 29 '22 at 11:46
I'm working on getting a fix to CRAN. You can use the development version in the meantime. Follow the [GitHub issue](https://github.com/joshuaulrich/quantmod/issues/358) — Joshua Ulrich, Apr 29 '22 at 14:29

Zaz · Accepted Answer · 2022-04-30T01:47:18.053

Update QuantMod and try again:

install.packages('quantmod')

This was a bug that was fixed very swiftly. Thank you Joshua Ulrich!

History (2022-04-29):

This was an issue on 2022-04-29 that Joshua Ulrich promptly published a fix for. You could install the patched version with:

remotes::install_github("joshuaulrich/quantmod@358-getsymbols-new.session")

But the changes are now into CRAN, so you should just be able to update QuantMod and continue with your day.

GitHub issue here.

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