[R] pass character vector in instrument field of get.hist.quote function

[Joshua Ulrich]

Sorry for the late reply.  Here's another approach using
quantmod::getSymbols.  It implicitly loops over a vector of tickers.

require(quantmod)
getSymbols(tickers[,1], from="2011-01-01", to="2011-01-31")
# If you want to merge all the close prices into one object:
ClosePrices <- do.call(merge, lapply(tickers[,1], function(x) Cl(get(x))))
head(ClosePrices)
#            BCSI.Close WBSN.Close NTAP.Close FFIV.Close SU.Close
# 2011-01-03      30.50      20.36      57.41     134.33    38.82
# 2011-01-04      30.24      19.82      57.38     132.07    38.03
# 2011-01-05      31.36      19.90      57.87     137.29    38.40
# 2011-01-06      32.04      19.79      57.49     138.07    37.23
# 2011-01-07      31.95      19.77      57.20     138.35    37.30
# 2011-01-10      31.55      19.76      58.22     142.69    37.04

Hope that helps,
--
Joshua Ulrich  |  FOSS Trading: www.fosstrading.com



On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 1:29 PM, algotr8der <algotr8der at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you all. Your solutions work. I suppose it doesnt matter whether I use
> coredata or not (at least for my current purposes). I have created a
> user-defined function and have saved it in a ".R" file in my current working
> directory. But now I'm not sure how to invoke this function. R complains
> that it cannot find the function.
>
> If I copy and paste the function code into the R console and call it after
> that everything works fine. Is there a way to bring that function into
> memory by giving a path to its location? I imagine that I will have many
> user-defined functions written in their own '.R' files over time.
>
> Thank you all.
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