[R-SIG-Finance] What's Wrong with this Chart?

Jeffrey Ryan jeffrey.ryan at lemnica.com
Fri Jan 28 22:19:32 CET 2011


On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Dan N. <exshovelrydr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Jeffery Ryan,

It's Jeffrey.
>
> I was simply asking if anyone had ideas on why the chart looked this way.
> Have you seen this before or not?  I was not asking for a lecture on mailing
> list protocol, how to recreate my environment, or any other such nonsense.

To answer your question --- yes, I have seen it before.

HTH
Jeff
>
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Jeffrey Ryan <jeffrey.ryan at lemnica.com>wrote:
>
>> Dan N.
>>
>> You'll need to provide something to make this reproducible.
>>
>> Typically that would be a very **small** example created with random
>> data or dput your data.  In addition you'd need to explain what TA is,
>> since I think that might be the issue.  Also some additional info like
>> platform, additional things you tried (e.g. running in R - to remove
>> the potential for Rpy to be a cause).
>>
>> You can also try using chart_Series, add_TA, add_BBands and add_Vo to
>> see if that fixes your issue.  That is the new version of chartSeries
>> that isn't 'complete', but it is much nicer for most basic things.
>>
>> In general the 'is this broken?' is a non-starter for help, since it
>> places the additional burden of recreating your environment on the
>> helper.  In this case, the helper is also the person who helped the
>> first time by writing and providing the code that you are using.  Of
>> course all of this is in the posting guide(s).
>>
>> Best,
>> Jeff
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Dan N. <exshovelrydr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Notice the numbers running up the left hand side of the graph, covering
>> the
>> > y-axis.
>> >
>> >  - using Python rpy2.
>> >  - create charts using Quantmod, example code below
>> >
>> > robjects.r['pdf'](file=filename)
>> > robjects.r['chartSeries'](dataf, subset=subset, theme="white", TA=TA)
>> > robjects.r['dev.off']()
>> >
>> > Any ideas?
>> >
>> >
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Jeffrey Ryan
>> jeffrey.ryan at lemnica.com
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