Hi All,
I would like to work with symbols referenced by strings: I would like to
manipulate data/symbols referencing to them by the string name of the
symbol.
An example will be clearer. Let's I get a time series through quantmod
> getSymbols("GLD")
This will create a new symbol GLD with the relevant data. I have tried
to rename the column names as follows:
> colnames(get("GLD")) <- c("open", "close", "low", "high", "volume",
"adjusted")
will give the following error:
Error in colnames("GLD")<- c("open", "close", "low", "high", "volume", :
target of assignment expands to non-language object
I am confused as to how to do this.
(the intent of this is to maintain a list of tickers in string format
and loop through them at ease to do whatever treatment)
Thanks for your help,
Emmanuel
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