hmd.mx error

[petermcquire]

running the code:

uk1<-hmd.mx("GBR_NP", login, password, "UK")

gives the following error message:

Error in read.table(con, header = TRUE, skip = 2, na.strings = ".", as.is = TRUE) :
more columns than column names

I have run hmd.mx function several times without encountering the issue before.

Thank you

[robjhyndman]

I do not get that error, using either the current CRAN version or the current github version. Try updating your packages.

[kabarigou]

I had the same issue: the issue is not from the packages but from the HMD website update.

It seems that if the login credentials are from before the HMD website update (around summer 2022), the function fails.

@petermcquire, register again at HMD with new login credentials and the function will work afterwards.