[R-SIG-Finance] trying to plot coincident time series in quantmod...

[Jeff Ryan]

Try wrapping the addTA call in plot()

 z <- function(a) {
        lineChart(a[,1],theme='white')
        plot(addTA(a[,2],on=1,col='blue'))
 }

HTH
Jeff

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Eugene Tyurin
<etyurin at skipstonellc.com> wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> Thank you very much - addTA really does what I need. However, there's
> a wrinkle - addTA somehow does not work inside a function!  Code
> sample attached:
>
> ix<-as.Date('2009-05-01')+seq(0:19)
> x<-sin(1:20)
> y<-cos(1:20)
> dat_<-xts(cbind(x,y),order.by=ix)
>
> # You see both lines:
> lineChart(dat_$x)
> addTA(dat_$y,on=1,col='red')
>
> z <- function(a) {
>        lineChart(a[,1],theme='white')
>        addTA(a[,2],on=1,col='blue') # <--- this one will not be displayed
> }
>
> # You see only one line:
> z(dat_)
>
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Jeff Ryan <jeff.a.ryan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Eugene,
>>
>> addPoints isn't very useful.  I intend on adding wrapper functions to
>> the underlying base graphics functions in R, that will work with
>> quantmod.  Until then 'addTA' will do almost everything you would want
>> for simple additions.
>>
>> Both of these work:
>>
>> addTA(dat_[,'5x16'],type='p',col='red',pch=25,on=1)
>> addTA(dat_[,'7x24'],type='p',col='red',pch=25,on=1)
>>
>>
>> Key points:
>>
>> ** Don't convert dat_ from xts.  The timestamps are important.
>> ** the "on" argument is where to draw.  In this case "1" is the main
>> window you want.
>>
>> HTH
>> Jeff
>>
>> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Eugene Tyurin <etyurin at skipstonellc.com> wrote:
>> > Hello!
>> >
>> > I am trying to plot more than one time series on one chart using quantmod's
>> > functions. However, my ability to parse the source code is lacking...
>> >
>> > For the life of me I can't figure out a way to use addPoints(). Simple
>> > points() function breaks down due to na.omit() in chartSeries().
>> >
>> > What is the "proper way" to do something like this?  I attached a simple
>> > example below:
>> >
>> > ix<-as.Date('2009-05-01')+seq(0,6)
>> > dat_<-xts(cbind(sin(1:7),sin(1:7)),order.by=ix)
>> > colnames(dat_)<-c('7x24','5x16')
>> > dat_[2:3,'5x16']<-NA
>> >
>> > # This works fine:
>> > lineChart(dat_[,'7x24'])
>> > points(as.vector(dat_[,'5x16']),col='red',type='p',pch=25)
>> >
>> > # This does not:
>> > lineChart(dat_[,'5x16'])
>> > points(as.vector(dat_[,'7x24']),col='red',type='p',pch=25)
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> > -- Eugene Tyurin.
>> >
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