D'oh -- won't work in general (weekends!) -- serves me right for being
lazy on a Friday.
What your problem is that variables aren't extrapolated into strings,
so you'll need to construct the subset string directly:
dataspy[paste(startDate, endDate, sep="/")]
or some such. (Untested!)
Cheers,
Michael
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 8:06 PM, R. Michael Weylandt
<michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> head(dataspy, 6) seems easiest.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 6:41 PM, veepsirtt <veepsi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi R,
>> How to get the range of values form startDate to lastDate as given below?.
>>
>> #*****************************************************************
>> # Load historical data
>> #******************************************************************
>> library('quantmod')
>> endDate =Sys.Date()
>> startDate = as.Date(endDate-30, order="ymd")
>>
>> dataspy = getSymbols("SPY", from = startDate, to=endDate, auto.assign =
>> FALSE)
>> lastDate=startDate+5
>>
>> #subset first 5 days
>> dataspy['startDate::lastDate']
>> print(dataspy)
>>
>> Thanks
>> veepsirtt
>>
>>
>>
>>
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