[R-SIG-Finance] saveChart don't work in Quantmod package

[Joshua Ulrich]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Joshua Ulrich <josh.m.ulrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> You need to update quantmod too.  You don't say which version of
> quantmod you're using, but R-3.0.0 requires you to use quantmod_0.4-0.

After further investigation, it looks like this is a bug.  I can
reproduce it with quantmod_0.4-0 and R-2.15.2 on Windows.

library(quantmod)
getSymbols("SPY")
chartSeries(SPY)
saveChart()
Error in assign(".chob", x, env) :
  cannot change value of locked binding for '.chob'

sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] 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] quantmod_0.4-0 TTR_0.21-1     xts_0.9-3      zoo_1.7-10     Defaults_1.1-1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.15.2     lattice_0.20-10


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> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Sávio Ramos <savio.debian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> After upgraded R to realese 3.o saveChart don't work more, error is:
>>
>>>   saveChart('pdf',width=25,height=13)
>> Erro em assign(".chob", x, env) :
>>   não é possível mudar o valor de vinculo bloqueado para '.chob'
>>
>> Is there any workaround?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> --
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