[R] New to R

[Ista Zahn]

Hi George,

Please keep the R mailing list copied--I've added them back.

The example on the webpage you listed is wrong, in a way that would be
obvious if you took the time to familiarize yourself with the basics
of R. stocks has no names.

Best,
Ista



On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 6:45 PM, George Katsuras <geokat05 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> http://economistatlarge.com/portfolio-theory/r-optimized-portfolio
>
> Thanks for your prompt response.  I think the above link provides the
> reproducible example you are looking for.
>
>
>
>> From: istazahn at gmail.com
>> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:16:57 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [R] New to R
>> To: geokat05 at hotmail.com
>> CC: r-help at r-project.org
>
>>
>> Please give a reproducible example. When I run your code I get "object
>> 'stocks' not found". So what is stocks?
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:24 PM, George Katsuras <geokat05 at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I successfully downloaded and loaded the stockPortfolio and quadprog
>> > packages, but when I entered the following command I got an error:
>> >
>> >
>> > returns <- getReturns(names(stocks), freq="week")
>> > Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
>> > In addition: Warning message:
>> > In file(file, "rt") : cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > When I tried discovering the source of this error, it appears that the
>> > file has been temporarily moved to a new URL address.
>> >
>> >
>> > I’m currently running Windows 8.1.
>> >
>> >
>> > Is there a fix for this?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Sent from Windows Mail
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