[R] New to R

Michael Dewey ||@t@ @end|ng |rom dewey@myzen@co@uk
Sat Sep 15 14:23:52 CEST 2018


Dear Jim

Without knowing what l.out is this might be tricky. What does str(l.out) 
tell you it is. And is CVS a typo for csv?

Michael

On 14/09/2018 19:00, Jim Blackburn wrote:
> I am newly subscribed to r-project.
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> I have recently plunged into R on a totally self-taught basis (may not have been the smartest decision!)
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> I am attempting to download tickers as a time series.  I can successfully create RDA files but I want to convert them to CVS.  Following is the code I have created so far.
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> if (!require(BatchGetSymbols)) install.packages('BatchGetSymbols')
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> library(BatchGetSymbols)
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> tickers <- c('SPY','VCR', 'RPG')
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> first.date <- Sys.Date()-365
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> last.date <- Sys.Date
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> l.out <- BatchGetSymbols(tickers = tickers,
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>         first.date = first.date,
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>         last.date = last.date,
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> cache.folder = file.path("c://Users/Owner/Documents/R",
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> +    'BGS_Cache') )
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> print(l.out$df.control)
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> print(l.out$df.tickers)
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> I can print(l.out) and see that it contains all the data, but it is not a data.frame
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> Can anyone help with creating a data.frame and then converting to CSV?
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> Any help is GREATLY appreciated!
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> Thanks
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> Jim
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Michael
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