[R] Rmetrics: Problem with "align"

[Gero Schwenk]

Hi there!
I'm stuck with a problem aligning financial timeseries and haven't found 
a cue how to fix it...

When I run that simple script, everything goes well until the 
"align"-command:

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rm(list=ls())
x <- yahooSeries("^GDAXI")
head(x)
xAligned <- align(x = x, by = "1d", method = "before", include.weekends 
= FALSE)
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Here's the command-line dialog:

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 > rm(list=ls())
 > x <- yahooSeries("^GDAXI")
versuche URL 
'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=^GDAXI&a=&b=&c=&d=8&e=07&f=2009&g=d&x=.csv'
Content type 'text/csv' length unknown
URL geöffnet
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downloaded 256 Kb

 > head(x)
GMT
           ^GDAXI.Open ^GDAXI.High ^GDAXI.Low ^GDAXI.Close ^GDAXI.Volume
2009-09-04     5328.59     5404.30    5320.28      5384.43      28535100
2009-09-03     5332.50     5364.03    5278.50      5301.42      25969000
2009-09-02     5325.94     5337.84    5263.11      5319.84      30401300
2009-09-01     5479.35     5507.48    5327.29      5327.29      31245400
2009-08-31     5474.62     5495.56    5437.92      5458.04      10442600
2009-08-28     5512.17     5573.89    5502.46      5517.35      23480600
           ^GDAXI.Adj.Close
2009-09-04          5384.43
2009-09-03          5301.42
2009-09-02          5319.84
2009-09-01          5327.29
2009-08-31          5458.04
2009-08-28          5517.35
 > xAligned <- align(x = x, by = "1d", method = "before", 
include.weekends = FALSE)
Fehler in seq.default(u[1] + offset, u[length(u)], by = by) :
  wrong sign in 'by' argument
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Besides, Example-Data (SWX) from the "fPortfolio"-package is aligned 
nicely by exactly the same command. Does anybody have an idea what the 
problem could be? I'm grateful for any help!

Kind regards,
Gero