Betfair R package

Question

I am running 3.3.2 and when I tried loading the package I got an error saying the package was built before 3.0.0.  Is there any way around this without using an older version of R?

I did load an older version and tried to log in but I was presented with the following error message:

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

I tried 22 and 82 for the API access type as per the documentation and I also tried my own API key but I got the same message in all cases. I get the same message even if I enter nonsense for the user and password?

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

Hi - you are doing nothing wrong, except the package is out of date, so do not use it.  We should take it down from the site to avoid confusion, but you may still find the documentation interesting...

However, there are lots of other options that are current.

Top of the list if you are using R is the abettor package, here:

https://github.com/phillc73/abettor

My favourite is the Perl package, here:

https://github.com/MyrddinWyllt/WWW-BetfairNG