[R-SIG-Finance] quantstrat & custom indicators

[algotr8der]

I have read through the documentation for quantstrat and gone through some
examples (RSI, MACD, Faber) but am a bit lost as to whether I can creatively
use the features of this package to create a custom indicator as follows:

-I have N securities 
-I want to pass each of those N securities along with N+1 constants to a
user created function called myfunction().
-the user created function myfunction() performs some arithmetic operations
and returns a single time series.

In this example, lets say N = 4

c1 <- 1
c2 <- 2
c3 <- 3
c4 <- 4
c5 <- 5

myStrat <- strategy("myStrat")
myStrat <- add.indicator(strategy = myStrat, name = "myfunction", arguments
= list(symbols[1], symbols[2], symbols[3], symbols[4], c1, c2, c3, c4, c5))

I have tried this and when I call applyStrategy I get multiple errors -

a) c1 is not found
b) when I removed c1-c5 and defined them in myfunction instead, I got:

Error in .Internal(get(x, envir, mode, inherits)) : 'x' is missing

It seems its expecting arguments in the form x=quote(Cl(mktdata)). I'm not
sure I can use that as my argument to myfunction as this user created
function needs to treat each individual time series in a unique way i.e. it
is performing a proprietary arithmetic operation.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.





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