Unable to log in using betfaiR

Question

I'm running R ver 2.15.2 within RStudio under Windows Vista.  I've managed to install the betfaiR package but when I run a login script I receive the following error message.  (I should state that I did manage to log in and get some market information down using betfaiR and the same R version but running under Linux on a very old and slow laptop.)

Has anyone else had similar issues or can suggest the cause?

 

 

> library(betfair)

Loading required package: bitops

Loading required package: zoo

Attaching package: ‘zoo’

The following object(s) are masked from ‘package:base’:

    as.Date, as.Date.numeric

Loading required package: xts

Loading required package: iterators

Loading required package: foreach

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Loading required package: RCurl

> username = "********"

> password = "********"

> api_access_type = 82

> login(username, password, api_access_type)

Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE)  : 

  SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details:

error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed

> 

Answer 1

Answering my own question!

The issue has been dealt with in another question.  I have added the following line and everything is now fine:

 

options(RCurlOptions = list(cainfo = "c:\\path\\to\\cacert.pem"))