[R-SIG-Finance] Fwd: Problems with charts.PerformanceSummary

[Costas Vorlow]

Thanks to all replies. It seems tseries and fImport were creating conflicts.

Thanks again,
Costas

On 10 June 2011 23:25, Brian G. Peterson <brian at braverock.com> wrote:
> Load the Rmetrics packages before loading xts/zoo
>
> The time() function is improperly declared as a generic by Rmetrics, ans
> stomps on zoo/xts/POSIX
> --
> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>
> Costas Vorlow <costas.vorlow at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello, When I try to run example(charts.PerformanceSummary) I get an error
>> message. I think there is some sort of incompatibility with the data type
>> and the drawdown part of the command. Maybe the locale? Any clues would be
>> greatly appreciated.... Many thanks in advance, Costas >
>> example(charts.PerformanceSummary) chr.PS> data(edhec) chr.PS>
>> charts.PerformanceSummary(edhec[,c(1,13)]) Hit <Return> to see next plot:
>> Error in UseMethod("time<-") :  no applicable method for 'time<-' applied to
>> an object of class "c('xts', 'zoo')" > sessionInfo() R version 2.13.0
>> (2011-04-13) Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit) locale:  [1]
>> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
>>  LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8  [5] LC_MONETARY=C
>>  LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C  [9]
>> LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
>> LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats     graphics
>>  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base other attached packages:  [1]
>> quantmod_0.3-15              TTR_0.20-2  [3] Defaults_1.1-1
>> PerformanceAnalytics_1.0.3.2  [5] xts_0.8-0                    e1071_1.5-26
>>  [7] class_7.3-3                  fMarkovSwitching_1.0  [9] Rdonlp2_0.3-1
>>              tseries_0.10-25 [11] quadprog_1.5-4
>> fImport_2110.79 [13] timeSeries_2130.92           timeDate_2130.93 [15]
>> zoo_1.6-5
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