[R] Help needed for getYahooData in TTR package & writing the Yahoo data to excel

[vanilla fantasy]

Just trying to be clearer on the problem faced, the dates in the 1st colume
become 1,2,3,4 in excel as below, the screenshot of how data appears in
excel is attached.

              Open      High         Low       Close      Volume
1          18937.45 19187.61 18937.45 19002.86      0
2          19003.51 19003.51 18221.82 18542.55      0
3          18574.01 18582.74 18168.27 18168.27      0
4          18194.05 18285.73 18068.10 18193.41      0
5          18246.10 18887.56 18246.10 18850.92      0
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On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 11:55 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>wrote:

>
> On Oct 9, 2010, at 10:54 PM, missvanilla wrote:
>
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm totally new to R. Recently I've been trying to use getYahooData in TTR
>> package in order to download stock index daily open/high/low/close. The
>> downloaded data is in the format of
>>
>>                  Open      High         Low       Close      Volume
>> 2000-01-04 18937.45 19187.61 18937.45 19002.86      0
>> 2000-01-05 19003.51 19003.51 18221.82 18542.55      0
>> 2000-01-06 18574.01 18582.74 18168.27 18168.27      0
>> 2000-01-07 18194.05 18285.73 18068.10 18193.41      0
>> 2000-01-11 18246.10 18887.56 18246.10 18850.92      0
>> 2000-01-12 18780.17 18811.87 18626.92 18677.42      0
>> 2000-01-13 18667.18 18845.03 18667.18 18833.29      0
>> 2000-01-14 18882.99 19058.02 18733.83 18956.55      0
>> 2000-01-17 19025.62 19442.58 19025.62 19437.23      0
>> 2000-01-18 19412.47 19412.47 19145.17 19196.57      0
>>
>> However, when I attempted to write the data to excel using write.table,
>> dates in the first colume  become 1,2,3,4 in the excel file. Same problem
>> happened if write.csv was used.
>>
>> If you run these two lines of code you'll get what I meant.. before
>> running
>> the code, package TTR needs to be loaded.
>>
>> N225 <- getYahooData("^N225", 20000101, )
>>> write.table(N225,"Nikkei.xls",sep='\t', row.name = TRUE , col.name = NA)
>>>
>>
> There is a well-described problem with write.table files going into Excel.
> There is no leading item or tab on the first row. You need to insert an
> extra cell and move the header over one position. Then you won't be
> misinterpreting your row.names as dates.
>
> --
> David
>
>
>> Appreciate your kind assistance! Thanks a lot in advance.
>>
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