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I was working with the rmetrics portfolioBacktesting function and dug into the code to try to find why my formula with 113 items, i.e. A1 thru A113, was being truncated and I only get 85 items, not 113. Is it due to a string length limitation in R or is it a bug in the strsplit or gsub functions, or in my string? I'd very much appreciate any suggestions ============Input script:

I have a timeseries object, ts, and want to get the first date in the series into a string so I can concatenate it with a SQL query. Input and output are shown below. I must be missing something very basic, but I can't seem to pry the data ("2008-07-01") into a string variable. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you, Andrew =====script: class(ts) (ts[1,0]) #returns

Short of uploading a SQL server database, I don't think I can make this example reproducible, but I hope it's not so complicated as to require reproducibility.... I'm using RODBC to get data from Microsoft SQL Server. I can call a parametrized stored procedure without a problem and the proc does indeed execute successfully. However, even though the proc returns the results I found

I'm using Rcmdr version 1.4-10 with R version 2.9.0 under Vista x64. A standard editing convention under Windows is that alt+backspace is a keyboard shortcut for "undo". I often find myself hitting the [alt] and [backspace] keys while editing scripts in Rcmdr. However, this causes the Rcmdr GUI to go into a crazy mode where the menu keeps flashing and the GUI is unresponsive.