[R-SIG-Finance] getPrice in blotter

[Joshua Ulrich]

It's in the latest revision of quantmod on R-forge.
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Joshua Ulrich
FOSS Trading: www.fosstrading.com



On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Horace Tso <Horace.Tso at pgn.com> wrote:
> Folks, thanks to Brian for showing me where to find FI, blotter is now up and running. But just fresh out of the box, i ran into this small error in all three of the example scripts. Seems like the getPrice function has been relocated elsewhere.
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>> # Add the transactions to the portfolio
>> # if you wanted to avoid the contract multiplier warning, you would add an instrument first
>> addTxns("amzn_port","amzn",TxnData=amzn.trades,verbose=TRUE)
>                    Txn.Qty Txn.Price Txn.Value Txn.Avg.Cost Pos.Qty Pos.Avg.Cost
> 2010-01-14 07:18:50    -400    127.49    -50996       127.49    -400            0
> 2010-01-14 07:18:53     400    127.49     50996       127.49       0            0
> ......
>> # update the portfolio stats
>> updatePortf("amzn_port",Dates="2010-01-14")
> Error in updatePosPL(Portfolio = pname, Symbol = as.character(symbol),  :
>  could not find function "getPrice"
>
> I'm on R 2.11.0 with xts 0.7-1,  and quantmod 0.3-13, just updated couple weeks ago.
>
> Thanks.
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> H
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>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.11.0 (2010-04-22)
> i386-pc-mingw32
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> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
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> attached base packages:
> [1] grDevices datasets  splines   graphics  stats     tcltk     utils     methods   base
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> other attached packages:
>  [1] blotter_0.5               FinancialInstrument_0.0.2 quantmod_0.3-13
>  [4] TTR_0.20-2                Defaults_1.1-1            xts_0.7-1
>  [7] zoo_1.6-3                 svSocket_0.9-48           TinnR_1.0.3
> [10] R2HTML_2.1                Hmisc_3.8-0               survival_2.35-8
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] cluster_1.12.3 grid_2.11.0    lattice_0.18-5 svMisc_0.9-57  tools_2.11.0
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