getSymbols is throwing could not find function "importDefaults" errror

Question

I am using FinancialInstrument package. When i try to call getSymbols function, i get following error.

getSymbols("HSI", src='FI', dir=paste0(PROJECT_HOME,"/data/tick"), extension='RData', + split_method='days', from='2014-11-01', days_to_omit="Saturday")

Error in getSymbols.FI(Symbols = "HSI", env = , verbose = FALSE, : could not find function "importDefaults"

Answer 1

That is because 'quantmod' package, that 'FinancialInstrument' package depends on, excluded from its dependencies 'Defaults' package, which includes 'importDefaults' function. So downloading 'Defaults' package may help, try library(Defaults) before running getSymbols.