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Hello, I have a matrix results with dimension 1x9 double matrix XLB XLE XLF XLI 1 53.3089 55.77923 37.64458 83.08646 I'm trying to order this matrix > print(order(results)) [1] 3 1 2 4 how can the function order return the columnname XLF XLB XLE XLI instead of 3 1 2 4 any idea ? Thank you in advance --

...;^' in "head(^" Again it is a problem. Back to the real problem here is the code below. How do I get around the error that results from the "^"? rm(list = ls(all = TRUE)) # use this to clear data library(quantmod) library(PerformanceAnalytics) symbols <- c('XLE','XLV','XLI','XLU','XLP','IYZ','XLK','XLY','XLF','XLB','GLD','SLV','E FA','EEM','FXA','FXE','FXY','HYG','LQD', '^GSPC') getSymbols(symbols,fr...

I am new to R so I apologize if my question is trivial. I have not been able to figure out whether what I want to do is even possible. I have a data frame of stock ticker symbols which I store into R space from a txt file as follows: tickers <- read.csv("stocks.txt", header=FALSE, sep=",") tickers <- tickers[1] / the tickers are stored in the first column >