[R-SIG-Finance] Financial charting now in quantmod v0.2-5

[Jeff Ryan]

R Finance Users:

I'm happy to announce the newest version of quantmod - version 0.2-5 -
is now available from www.quantmod.com and posting to CRAN mirrors as
you read this.

Important and (possibly) Interesting Changes:

• New charting tool(s):

A facility to produce very pretty (IMO) financial charts from OHLC
data. Candlesticks, Barcharts, and Linecharts are all implemented with
a variety of options to satisfy most charting preferences.
A few examples can be found at:

http://www.quantmod.com/examples and http://www.quantmod.com/gallery

Some issues of usability remain, but overall the functions works as expected.

There is work being done on adding technical analysis tools from TTR
to the charts as well, with a  screenshot of the progress/direction on
the website's examples page.


• Major website changes. New examples for using quantmod for data
management, as well as the aforementioned screenshots of the charting
abilities currently defined.

• An RSS feed.  Not much there, but if you're interested it will offer
updated info about quantmod as it becomes available.

• New getSymbols methods - data can now be fetched within the
getSymbols function from yahoo, google, St.Louis Fed's FRED, Oanda,
local MySQL db, csv, and RData files. One command covers them all.

• Misc bug fixes and function additions.

• A 'what's next' section to www.quantmod.com/whatsnext for those
interested in the future plans.

Thanks for your time,
Jeff Ryan