[R-SIG-Finance] blotter updatePortf issue..

[Doug Edmunds]

On 9/3/2012 12:14 PM, G See wrote:

> Second, I didn't get these warnings that you got


Perhaps you have warnings set to a negative number.
On Windows (XP,7) I get warnings using getSymbol, with both
the CRAN and newer Rforge versions of quantmod.

Try setting warnings to the default of 0
   options(warn=0)


> install.packages("quantmod", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
Installing package(s) into ‘C:/R/library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 
'http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.15/quantmod_0.3-20.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 448957 bytes (438 Kb)
opened URL
downloaded 438 Kb

package ‘quantmod’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
	C:\Documents and Settings\dae\Local 
Settings\Temp\RtmpcZmZ3k\downloaded_packages
> library("quantmod")
Loading required package: Defaults
Loading required package: xts
Loading required package: zoo

Attaching package: ‘zoo’

The following object(s) are masked from ‘package:base’:

     as.Date, as.Date.numeric

Loading required package: TTR
> getSymbols("QQQ")
[1] "QQQ"
Warning message:
In download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m,  :
   downloaded length 72200 != reported length 200
> getSymbols("IWM")
[1] "IWM"
Warning message:
In download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m,  :
   downloaded length 71729 != reported length 200