Scott and Joshua,

Thanks for your quick response, and sorry for my  slow response.

Joshua your answer was precisely what i was looking for.

Greetings,

Werner

2010/8/21 Joshua Ulrich <josh.m.ulrich@gmail.com>

> getSymbols() returns an xts object (which is a subclass of zoo) by
> default.  The dates in xts/zoo objects are stored in an "index"
> attribute that is unique to xts/zoo objects, so write.table() doesn't
> know to write this attribute to the file.
>
> So you need to:
> 1) Give write.table() the rownames to use via:
> write.table(IBM, file = "ibm-data.txt", row.names=index(IBM))
> 2) Or (my preference) use write.zoo():
> write.zoo(IBM, file = "ibm-data.txt")
>
> HTH,
> --
> Joshua Ulrich
> FOSS Trading: www.fosstrading.com
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Werner Erselina <w.erselina@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi fellow R users,
> >
> > As a new user to r and quantmod i have the following problem. Using
> quantmod
> > for retrieving data from yahoo or google i am stuck in writing this data
> to
> > a text file.
> >
> >> getSymbols("IBM")
> > [1] "IBM"
> >> write.table(IBM, file = "ibm-data.txt")
> >
> > The text file created this way does not contain the date information.
> >
> > So how could i best write quantmod data to a text file?
> >
> > greetings,
> >
> > Werner
> >
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