Re: [R] Getting previous day data and implementing it for quantstrat

2015-08-12 Thread boredstoog via R-help
Sorry Joshua, I just want diverse solutions for this answer. Sorry for causing any trouble or inconvenience for you. I am withdrawing my question from this forum. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Getting-previous-day-data-and-implementing-it-for-quantstrat-tp47109

[R] Getting previous day data and implementing it for quantstrat

2015-08-11 Thread boredstoog via R-help
I am a newbie and trying to create my own bactesting code after going through demo(). I am using a *candle engulfing pattern* strategy and this is the formula buy=(close(1) < close) and (high(1) < high) and (low(1) < low) sell=(close(1) > close) and (high(1) > high) and (low(1) > low) **(1) repres

Re: [R] inbuilt crossover function for backtesting

2015-08-10 Thread boredstoog via R-help
Josh, I have found other demos on demo().. any way thanks for the help and for supporting this project :) boredstog -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/inbuilt-crossover-function-for-backtesting-tp4710918p4710962.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabb

Re: [R] inbuilt crossover function for backtesting

2015-08-10 Thread boredstoog via R-help
Hey thanks josh, I was looking for such a demo programme can you point to some more such demo programmes if available -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/inbuilt-crossover-function-for-backtesting-tp4710918p4710961.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Na

Re: [R] inbuilt crossover function for backtesting

2015-08-10 Thread boredstoog via R-help
Thanks Joshua for the quick reply to the mail and once more sorry for bothering with another doubt. So i have modified your code :) for backtesting and this is the code * library(quantmod) library(tseries) require(quantstrat) library(PerformanceAnalytics) sym <- get(getSymbols('SPY'))["2013::"] sy

[R] inbuilt crossover function for backtesting

2015-08-09 Thread boredstoog via R-help
I am trying to built a simple moving average cross over strategy for backtesting. I have installed TTR and quantmod, quantstrat for that purpose. >From TTR package we can get functions for sma,bolinger band and other indicators. I want to know whether any inbuilt crossover function (not greater '>'

Re: [R] Automatically updating a WordPress blog from R

2015-08-09 Thread boredstoog via R-help
I dont know whether this will help you because even I am also pretty new to R but have some experience in web development. I would recommend you to read about "cron jobs" . cron jobs automate your request and execute according to your execution parameters (1 minute, 3.5 days etc) -- View this me

[R] Cant upgrade R in ubuntu 14.04

2015-08-07 Thread boredstoog via R-help
I am trying to install R programming language and able to install rbase using this code without adding repository in *source.list* sudo apt-get install r-base After that i tried to upgrade it using this code sudo add-apt-repository ‘deb http://star-www.st-andrews.ac.uk/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu/tru