Re: [R] quantmod package

2011-10-31 Thread ATANU
Dear Michael , Thanks for your help. I figured out the fault. Actually i was running the code for a very short time(less than one minute) and was then trying to make chart out of that. The code works well if I run it for more than one minute. Thanks again for your help. Atanu -- View this messag

Re: [R] quantmod package

2011-10-31 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
Dear Ata, I just tested it and it worked just fine for me. Perhaps you need to test it during US market hours rather than when they are closed. (I'm not sure what the yahoo finance website does then). If you want to keep the whole getQuote object, you will probably have to do a little work on the

Re: [R] quantmod package

2011-10-27 Thread ATANU
the code you posted works well except that when i am using chartSeries() it does not give any graphical stuff: >chartSeries(P,type="auto") >Error in if (on == "years") { : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed i also tried to store the entire getQuote output (OHLC object) by the above manner but

Re: [R] quantmod package

2011-10-21 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
You have to convert the long numbers to time objects; they are kept as POSIXct values so just apply as.POSIXct() to them. However, you may just want to store the time data as a string containing the same info: try this, library(quantmod) tck = "YHOO" filename = paste(tck, ".txt", sep="") while(T

Re: [R] quantmod package

2011-10-21 Thread ATANU
thanks for the help. but with that code it is possible to save the current quotes in a text file(only the date-time in the first columnis not preserved). when i used read.table and tried to convert it into an xts object it shows error as it cannot take the indices as time object. same case happens

Re: [R] quantmod package

2011-10-20 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
Generally getting intraday/real-time data requires some sort of (paid) source, but if you are willing to just strip free quotes off the internet non-stop, perhaps something like this: while(TRUE) { cat( file = "FileName.txt", c(getQuote(YHOO), recursive = T), "\n", append = T) } # You could get

[R] quantmod package

2011-10-20 Thread ATANU
i am new to the quantmod package . so if the answer is trivial please excuse me. i want to study stock values within a day. i get current stock updates using getQuotes and then want to produce usual quantmod graphs with that values. also the graph should be able of adding technical indicators. ple