similar to: character string as object name

I'm sure there is a more general way to ask this question but how do you use the elements of a character vector as names of objects in an expression? For example, say you have: a = c(1,3,5,7) b = c(2,4,6,8) n=c("a","b") and you want to use the names a and b in a function (e.g. sum) sum(eval(as.name(n[1])),eval(as.name(n[2]))) works but what is a simpler way to

I am using the getQuote function in the Quantmod package to retrieve the % change for a stock as follows: > getQuote("aapl",what=yahooQF(c("Change Percent (Real-time)"))) Trade Time %Change (RT) aapl 2012-10-11 03:41:00 N/A - -1.67% How can I extract the numeric "change %" which is being returned as a factor so that I can use it in other

Hi everyone, following the gentle advice from this list, I write a package description Rd file. I have a section in there. In this section, I have a subsection. In this subsection, I want to have a code fragment. This code fragment should include several commands, spanning several lines. Example: ========== \name{aqr-package} \alias{aqr-package} \alias{aqr} \docType{package} \title{Package

Hey guys, i want to calculate the continuasly compounded returns for stock prices. Formula for CCR: R_t = ln(P_t/P_{t-1})*100 With R: First i have to modify the vectors, so that they have the same length and we start at the second observation. log(GOOG1[-1]/GOOG1[1:length(GOOG1)-1])*100 That does work with normal vectors. My Questions: 1) I want to use this for stock prices. so i

How can I print the definition of a function that is in the base package? for example, if I type: which.min I get function (x) .Internal(which.min(x)) <environment: namespace:base> How can I see the definition of this function? Thanks.

I would like to have a function which gets data, does a calculation and prints a result and then waits some number of seconds and repeats. If I use Sys.sleep, the execution is pausing but the function output is buffered so that it all comes out when the function terminates. How can I get output while the function continues to execute?

Dear R Helpers, I have run into a problem trying to perform a number of actions on a set of quantmod data objects through a loop and I am hoping that this is an easy problem for someone else as opposed to very difficult for me. The example task is to get the first three objects of the quarterly balance sheet for a number of companies from the getFinancials object and put them together into a

Hi, I am trying to calculate the std dev of returns of YHOO so far i got: getSymbols("YHOO") retYHOO <- Return.calculate(Cl(YHOO)) > sd(retYHOO) YHOO.Close NA but i received an NA....can any assist? tks! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Newbie-question-re-stddev%2C-quantmod-and-performanceanalytics-tp25001293p25001293.html Sent from the R help

Dear Sir/Madam, How to use getSymbols() to get annual data? For example, I need the annual stock price of APPLE from the year 2000 to 2016. How to write the command? I only know how to get the daily data. It is: getSymbols("AAPL",from="2000-01-01",to="2016-12-31") Thank you very much. Have a good week! Best regards, Yingrui Liu [[alternative HTML

I have a matrix which has colnames and I would like to send this matrix using sendmailR. How can I convert this simple matrix to a format which can be used as the body variable in sendmailR? I see how I can create a file attachment using mime_part but I would like to send the matrix in the body of the email. The matrix looks like: ABD DEF GHI JKL MNO TOT [1,] 0.44 0.81 1.67 0.37

Hello all: Friend told me that we can download the stock historical quote from Yahoo site by R! Could you tell me that is true or not, how to do that? Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-download-Yahoo-Quote-tp3769563p3769563.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

I am using getSymbols function from quantmod package to get price data from internet. Currently I have: my.ticker <- "IBM" getSymbols(my.ticker,src="google") This creates an xts object named my.ticker which contains historical price data for IBM. How can I call and manipulating this xts object using my original string my.ticker? I want to do: colnames(my.ticker) <-

Hi all, I would need to put datas downloaded with quantmod into a matrix or a data frame. Suppose to start from here: *require(quantmod) ticker.list <- c('AAA', 'ALTSALES', 'AMBNS', 'AMBSL', 'BAA', 'EMRATIO', 'FEDFUNDS', 'GASPRICE', 'GS1', 'GS10', 'GS20', 'LNS14100000', 'MORTG',

Hi, I work with SEXP C code and with xts and quantmod packages. I try to touch how xts internal works. So we have R session and: > ls() character(0) > getSymbols('AAPL') # quantmod package [1] "AAPL" > ls() [1] "AAPL" > str(AAPL) An ?xts? object from 2007-01-03 to 2010-09-09 containing: Data: num [1:929, 1:6] 86.3 84 85.8 86 86.5 ... - attr(*,

Hi, I got some problems while was trying to download data from Yahoo using yahoo.get.hist.quote() function. My script is as follows : app <- yahoo.get.hist.quote("aapl", start="02/07/09", end="02/07/06", quote="close") However I got following error : trying URL

Hello; I am trying following but getting a warning message : Warning in rbind.zoo(...) : column names differ, no matter whatever I do. Also I do not want to specify column names manually, since I am just writing a wrapper function around getSymbols to get chunks of data from various sources - oanda, dividends etc. I tried giving col.names = T/F, header = T/F and skip = 1 but no help. I think

R 3.4.1 OS X Colleagues, I am just learning to use the quantmod package and I have encountered something that I don?t understand. This works: getSymbols("^DJI") This does not work: getQuote("^DJI?) It returns only NAs: Trade Time Last Change % Change Open High Low Volume ^DJI <NA> N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Two questions: 1. Is there some way to obtain the

Could you provide some information on your data structure (e.g., are the two time series in separate columns in the data)? The solution is fairly straightforward once you have the data in the right structure. And I do not think tidyquant is necessary for what you want. Best, Charlie -- Charles Redmon GRA, Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis PhD Student, Department of Linguistics

Hello, I'm trying to do two things: -1. Ensure that I understand how quantmod adjust's OHLC data -2. Determine how I ought to adjust my data. My overarching-goal is to adjust my OHLC data appropriately to minimize the difference between my backtest returns, and the returns I would get if I was trading for real (which I'll be doing shortly). Background: -1. I'm using Alpha

Hi there, Using a quantmod function, I calculate the daily change between two points in a time series. However, I don't think I am using the data correctly. Code: getSymbols("^GSPC", src="yahoo") CloseData <- Cl(GSPC) Delta <- diff(CloseData, lag=1) for (i in 3:length(Delta)) { if (Delta[i]>Delta[i-1]) sum <- sum + Delta } I can't seem to use the Delta