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

pie trader pietrader at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 19:19:40 CEST 2012


Hi Doug,
Thanks. I tried by setting options(warn=0) but I still get the warning
message with getSymbol. Following is the sessionInfo() and code I
executed.

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] blotter_0.8.11               FinancialInstrument_1.0
quantmod_0.3-20
[4] PerformanceAnalytics_1.0.4.4 TTR_0.21-1
Defaults_1.1-1
[7] xts_0.8-6                    zoo_1.7-7

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.15.1     lattice_0.20-10 tools_2.15.1
> options(warn=0)
> getSymbols("SPY", src='yahoo', index.class=c("POSIXt","POSIXct"), from='2000-01-01')
[1] "SPY"
Warning message:
In download.file(paste(yahoo.URL, "s=", Symbols.name, "&a=", from.m,  :
  downloaded length 173389 != reported length 200
>

Regards,
Durga

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Doug Edmunds <dougedmunds at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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