[R-SIG-Finance] Accessing "row names" in an object created by quantmod

Ilya Kipnis ilya.kipnis at gmail.com
Tue Sep 12 16:43:07 CEST 2017


The command is index(AAPL)

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Dennis Fisher <fisher at plessthan.com>
wrote:

> R 3.4.1
> OS X
>
> Colleagues,
>
> I am just learning about quantmod and I don’t understand the behavior of
> xts objects.
>
> For example:
>         getSymbols("AAPL”)
> Creates an object AAPL
>
>         tail(AAPL)
> yields:
>            AAPL.Open AAPL.High AAPL.Low AAPL.Close AAPL.Volume
> AAPL.Adjusted
> 2017-08-31    163.64    164.52   163.48     164.00    26785100
> 164.00
> 2017-09-01    164.80    164.94   163.63     164.05    16591100
> 164.05
> 2017-09-05    163.75    164.25   160.56     162.08    29468500
> 162.08
> 2017-09-06    162.71    162.99   160.52     161.91    21651700
> 161.91
> 2017-09-07    162.09    162.24   160.36     161.26    21928500
> 161.26
> 2017-09-08    160.86    161.15   158.53     158.63    28352600
> 158.63
>
> I would like to extract a row based on the date column.  The usual
> approaches (e.g., rownames) do not work.
>
> So, how do I extract the date column?
>
> Dennis
>
>
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