[R-SIG-Finance] 'Defaults' removed from CRAN? (2014-10-03)

Joshua Ulrich josh.m.ulrich at gmail.com
Wed Oct 29 12:56:00 CET 2014


On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:56 AM, G See <gsee000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, did you try _not_ changing your current code, but
>> instead adding library(Defaults) to the top of the script?  It's not
>> ideal, but Defaults _is_ still available
>> (http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/Defaults/).  That could
>> buy you some time until you come up with something better.
>>
>> Just a (possibly bad) thought.
>> Garrett
>>
>
> I did not but for whatever reason it didn't seem to work for me. SetDefaults is
> apparently found and the defaults are in therebut getSymbols.MySQL didn't
> apparently pick up. SPY is not returned, QQQ is when I pass the info
> in explicitly.
> I'm probably doing something stupid...
>
My guess is that you're using the "new" version of quantmod that does
not depend on Defaults.  Make sure you're using quantmod_0.4.0 with
Defaults.

> - Mark
>
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