[R-SIG-Finance] How to scroll in time in a quantmod chart?

Jeff Ryan jeff.a.ryan at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 18:50:17 CEST 2008


There is an example or two here:

http://www.quantmod.com/examples/charting/

Jeff

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Jeff Ryan <jeff.a.ryan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> You can't scroll per se, at least not by clicking.
>
> You can however display only subsets of your data, without affecting
> any TA additions you have on the charts.
>
> ?zoomChart and the 'subset' argument to chartSeries should do it.
>
> library(quantmod)
> getSymbols("QQQQ", from='1999-03-10')
> periodicity(QQQQ)
>
> chartSeries(QQQQ)  # the whole series
> chartSeries(QQQQ, subset='last 6 months')
> chartSeries(QQQQ, subset='2007')
> chartSeries(QQQQ, subset='2000-01/2000-07-20')
>
> zoomChart()  # full chart again
>
> zoomChart('2006')
>
> You can also change some chart parameters on the fly too:
>
> reChart(type='bars')
>
> You can interactively select time to view with zooom().  Double click
> on the chart to go to the full data view.
>
> The 3rd 'o' in 'zooom' is for good luck...and to avoid namespace clashes :)
>
> HTH
> Jeff
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Michael Zak <michael at zak.li> wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I use charts from the quantmod package and I'm excited! But now I'm asking
>> myself, if there is a way to scroll in time if I want to display a lot of
>> data (I have data for the last 10 years). Is there a option I can do that
>> with quantmod itself or shall I give it try with the windows() function from
>> the tkrplot package or is there an other solution for that?
>>
>> Thank you, Michael Zak
>>
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