[R-SIG-Finance] Numeric to timeSeries help

Joshua Ulrich josh.m.ulrich at gmail.com
Mon Mar 26 15:20:27 CEST 2012


On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Golam Sakline <golam.sakline at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can someone quickly help me with few lines of code or point me to a site that shows how to merge a numeric class object column with time column of getSymbol object and plot it in quantmod chartSeries.

There's no such thing as a "getSymbol" object.  By default getSymbols
returns an xts object.  xts objects do not have a "time column"; they
have an index attribute that stores the date/time.

What did you try?  This works:
x <- xts(1:10, Sys.Date()+1:10)
x <- merge(x,10:1)

Best,
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