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

Dan N. exshovelrydr at gmail.com
Fri Jan 28 22:27:31 CET 2011


Lol.  Jeff you are one bitter person.

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On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Jeffrey Ryan <jeffrey.ryan at lemnica.com> wrote:

> 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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>>> 
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> 
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