Can you post the first 10 lines or so of the file you'd like to parse? Dan
On Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 12:34:02 PM UTC-5, Charles Santana wrote: > > Hi, thanks for all your suggestions! > > @Eric: unfortunately readcsv and readtable give me the same situation as > readdlm. > > @Milan: thanks for the suggestion. Just created it: > https://github.com/milktrader/Quandl.jl/issues/91 > > Best, > > Charles > > On 5 December 2015 at 23:07, Milan Bouchet-Valat <nali...@club.fr > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Le vendredi 04 décembre 2015 à 23:47 +0100, Charles Novaes de Santana a >> écrit : >> > Hi people, >> > >> > Maybe it is a trivial question for most of you, but I really could >> > not find a way to solve my problem. >> > >> > I am using the function quandlget(id::ASCIIString) from the library >> > https://github.com/milktrader/Quandl.jl (a great contribution, by the >> > way!) >> > >> > Everything works fine when I use it in a straightforward way: >> > >> > julia> mydat = quandl("GOOG/NASDAQ_GOOG",rows=100,format="DataFrame") >> > 100x6 DataFrames.DataFrame >> > | Row | Date | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume | >> > |-----|------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|-----------| >> > | 1 | 2015-07-08 | 521.05 | 522.73 | 516.11 | 516.83 | 1.2967e6 | >> > | 2 | 2015-07-09 | 523.12 | 523.77 | 520.35 | 520.68 | 1.84235e6 | >> > | 3 | 2015-07-10 | 526.29 | 532.56 | 525.55 | 530.13 | 1.95668e6 | >> > >> > >> > or when I do: >> > >> > julia> myid = "GOOG/NASDAQ_GOOG" >> > "GOOG/NASDAQ_GOOG" >> > >> > julia> typeof(myid) >> > ASCIIString >> > >> > julia> mydat = quandl(myid,rows=100,format="DataFrame") >> > 100x6 DataFrames.DataFrame >> > | Row | Date | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume | >> > |-----|------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|-----------| >> > | 1 | 2015-07-08 | 521.05 | 522.73 | 516.11 | 516.83 | 1.2967e6 | >> > | 2 | 2015-07-09 | 523.12 | 523.77 | 520.35 | 520.68 | 1.84235e6 | >> > | 3 | 2015-07-10 | 526.29 | 532.56 | 525.55 | 530.13 | 1.95668e6 | >> > >> > >> > However, I get an error when I read my data from an external file. >> > Assume I have an ascii file containing only one line: >> > >> > $ echo "GOOG/NASDAQ_GOOG" > portfolio.txt >> > >> > $ cat portfolio.txt >> > GOOG/NASDAQ_GOOG >> > >> > >> > I just read the content of this file by using readdlm and try to use >> > it to call the same function quandl, but it does not work. >> > >> > julia> myportfolio = readdlm("./portfolio.txt",'\n') >> > 1x1 Array{Any,2}: >> > "GOOG/NASDAQ_GOOG" >> > >> > julia> typeof(myportfolio[1]) >> > SubString{ASCIIString} >> > >> > julia> mydat = quandl(myportfolio[1],rows=100,format="DataFrame") >> > ERROR: MethodError: `quandlget` has no method matching >> > quandlget(::SubString{ASCIIString}) >> Though the other posts give good solutions to your problem, you could >> also file an issue against Quandl.jl to change quandlget() to accept >> any AbstractString, and not only ASCIIString. That would be helpful in >> legitimate cases. >> >> >> Regards >> >> > I suppose the easiest way to solve this problem is to convert my >> > SubString{ASCIIString} variable to ASCIIString. Am I right here? How >> > can I do it? >> > >> > Does any of you have another suggestion? May be I could read my data >> > in a different way instead of using readdlm? >> > >> > Thanks for any tip! >> > >> > best, >> > >> > Charles >> > -- >> > Um axé! :) >> > >> > -- >> > Charles Novaes de Santana, PhD >> > http://www.imedea.uib-csic.es/~charles >> > > > > -- > Um axé! :) > > -- > Charles Novaes de Santana, PhD > http://www.imedea.uib-csic.es/~charles >
