Hi,

I noticed that data obtained from google using getSymbols are all in
character. I am wondering if there is any parameter I need to specify to
make all into numeric? Or I have to really convert it column by column for
each symbol I load? Thank you so much.

> getSymbols("QQQ",src="google",from=START,to=END)
[1] "QQQ"
> head(QQQ)
           QQQ.Open QQQ.High QQQ.Low QQQ.Close QQQ.Volume
2007-01-03 "43.46"  "44.06"  "42.52" "43.24"   " 60400600"
2007-01-04 "43.30"  "44.21"  "43.15" "44.06"   " 32940700"
2007-01-05 "43.93"  "43.95"  "43.48" "43.85"   " 17339400"
2007-01-08 "43.88"  "44.12"  "43.64" "43.88"   " 97154600"
2007-01-09 "44.00"  "44.29"  "43.63" "44.10"   " 11924900"
2007-01-10 "43.96"  "44.66"  "43.82" "44.62"   " 13260000"

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