[R] Trying to use chartSeries in quantmod

[Adrian Berg]

Both
> barChart(dataxts,bar.type='hlc')
> candleChart(dataxts)
give the same results as well.

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Adrian Berg <adrian.berg92 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks to mrflick on Freenode, I was able to get chartSeries to plot the data.
>
> data$date<-strptime(data$date, format="%Y-%m-%d")
> dataxts<-xts(data$price, order.by=data$date)
> chartSeries(dataxts)
>
> chartSeries(dataxts, type="candlesticks") plots the same graph though:
> http://i.imgur.com/P0Jh0.png
>
> Why is this?
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Adrian Berg <adrian.berg92 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> colnames = c("date","price")
>>> data = read.csv(file="data.csv", sep=",", header=F, nrows=261, skip=5, col.names=colnames)
>>> library(quantmod)
>>> data
>>          date   price
>> 1   2011-12-18 13.7825
>> 2   2011-12-11 13.5500
>> ...
>> ...
>> ...
>> 259 2007-01-07 10.8256
>> 260 2006-12-31 10.8531
>> 261 2006-12-24 10.8169
>>
>> # Here's where I would like to use chartSeries from quantmod, but I'm
>> stumped, so I try several different things
>>
>>> chartSeries(date, price, data=data)
>> Error in try.xts(x, error = "chartSeries requires an xtsible object") :
>>  chartSeries requires an xtsible object
>>> ?chartSeries
>>> chartSeries(date, price, type="candlesticks", theme = chartTheme("black"))
>> Error in try.xts(x, error = "chartSeries requires an xtsible object") :
>>  chartSeries requires an xtsible object
>>> chartSeries(date, price, type="candlesticks", theme = chartTheme("black"), subset='2007::2008-01')
>> Error in try.xts(x, error = "chartSeries requires an xtsible object") :
>>  chartSeries requires an xtsible object
>>
>>
>> Help is appreciated very much!