Error in start_top:end_top : NA/NaN argument

Question

Error in start_top:end_top : NA/NaN argument

Closed this issue 2 years ago · 11 comments

The following code:

plot(
  gtrends(
    keyword = "Coca-Cola",
    geo = "US",
    time = "2005-02-04 2005-02-05",
    onlyInterest = FALSE
  )
)

produces this error
Error in start_top:end_top : NA/NaN argument

also happens with this code (just to show that it's not about the 1 day difference)

gtrends(
  keyword = "Coca-Cola",
  geo = "US",
  time = "2005-02-04 2005-02-08"
)

Answer 1 · 2023-05-31T12:09:25.000Z

Try with the dev version.

Answer 2 · 2023-05-31T12:09:51.000Z

This is because you are looking at only one day (February 4, 2005 to February 5, 2005). If you look at google you will not get related topics for one day.

Answer 3 · 2023-05-31T12:14:12.000Z

In fact, you will get the top related topics, but not the rising ones. Since the rising topics are empty. gtrends() will throw an error.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2005-02-04%202005-02-05&geo=US&q=Coca%20Cola&hl=en

Answer 4 · 2023-05-31T12:31:23.000Z

Try with the dev version.

I tried, didn't help

This is because you are looking at only one day (February 4, 2005 to February 5, 2005). If you look at google you will not get related topics for one day.

Ok, but still on the other example we look at 5 days (Feb 4 to Feb Feb 8) and the issue still occurs
this is the output from google for those dates:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2005-02-04%202005-02-08&geo=US&q=Coca%20Cola&hl=en

Answer 5 · 2023-05-31T13:20:22.000Z

That is not the request you included. (Probably my bad) You were looking for "coca-cola" not "coca cola". For coca-cola you do not have a rising related topic tab in the result from google. Have a look:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2005-02-04%202005-02-08&geo=US&q=Coca-Cola&hl=en

Answer 6 · 2023-05-31T13:49:17.000Z

hmmm, ok thanks for the enlightenment :)
btw, is there any chance to "fix" it? I mean either return the data (with zeros of course) or at least add something that is a little bit clearer in the error prompt

Answer 7 · 2023-05-31T14:02:16.000Z

That is not the request you included. (Probably my bad) You were looking for "coca-cola" not "coca cola". For coca-cola you do not have a rising related topic tab in the result from google. Have a look: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2005-02-04%202005-02-08&geo=US&q=Coca-Cola&hl=en

Ok now I found something else (basically the same issue) :P , the following code

d2 <- gtrends("Coca Cola", geo = "US", time="2005-02-05 2005-02-07")
plot(d2)

yields the the same error but as you can see the results from google are perfectly fine
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2005-02-05%202005-02-07&geo=US&q=Coca%20Cola&hl=en

Answer 8 · 2023-05-31T19:06:06.000Z

Like I said, works fine with the dev version

devtools::install_github("pmassicotte/gtrendsR", force = TRUE)
#> Using github PAT from envvar GITHUB_PAT
#> Downloading GitHub repo pmassicotte/gtrendsR@HEAD
#> 
#> ── R CMD build ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#> * checking for file ‘/tmp/RtmpWRSOnb/remotes1175efa5bb750/PMassicotte-gtrendsR-d53b9b7/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
#> * preparing ‘gtrendsR’:
#> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
#> * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
#> * checking for empty or unneeded directories
#> * building ‘gtrendsR_1.5.1.9000.tar.gz’
#> Installing package into '/home/filoche/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.3'
#> (as 'lib' is unspecified)

library(gtrendsR)

d2 <- gtrends("Coca Cola", geo = "US", time = "2005-02-05 2005-02-07")
plot(d2)

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Answer 9 · 2023-06-01T08:43:48.000Z

Like I said, works fine with the dev version

devtools::install_github("pmassicotte/gtrendsR", force = TRUE)
#> Using github PAT from envvar GITHUB_PAT
#> Downloading GitHub repo pmassicotte/gtrendsR@HEAD
#> 
#> ── R CMD build ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#> * checking for file ‘/tmp/RtmpWRSOnb/remotes1175efa5bb750/PMassicotte-gtrendsR-d53b9b7/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
#> * preparing ‘gtrendsR’:
#> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
#> * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
#> * checking for empty or unneeded directories
#> * building ‘gtrendsR_1.5.1.9000.tar.gz’
#> Installing package into '/home/filoche/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.3'
#> (as 'lib' is unspecified)

library(gtrendsR)

d2 <- gtrends("Coca Cola", geo = "US", time = "2005-02-05 2005-02-07")
plot(d2)

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First, it's still not correct, there are differences between the values you receive and and what google shows if you'll look again at the google trands you will notice these differences :

your plot	google's plot
x(Feb 05) < 87.5	x(Feb 05) = 91
x(Feb 06) = 0	x(Feb 06) = 25

Second, I've installed the dev version and still get the same, you can see here:

Also, I reinstalled R and R studio and updated all the packages just to see if it will work and it didn't (both on my PC and laptop)

Answer 10 · 2023-06-01T12:06:48.000Z

Just a thought: Maybe your timezone matters / is different between web-browsing and API requests and leads to different cutoff times. You could try overriding that. This should wash out more if you compare 7 days or a month or longer.

Answer 11 · 2023-11-23T10:58:16.000Z

I am also getting the same error for a longer time period (default of today+5-y):

gtrendsR::gtrends("internalpaint", geo = "GB")
#> Error in start_top:end_top: NA/NaN argument
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