I believe (unchecked) that you need OHLC data for candlesticks. You can use to.TTT functions to make some from your daily data.
Michael On Dec 21, 2011, at 11:52 PM, Adrian Berg <adrian.ber...@gmail.com> wrote: > Both >> barChart(dataxts,bar.type='hlc') >> candleChart(dataxts) > give the same results as well. > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Adrian Berg <adrian.ber...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks to mrflick on Freenode, I was able to get chartSeries to plot the >> data. >> >> data$date<-strptime(data$date, format="%Y-%m-%d") >> dataxts<-xts(data$price, order.by=data$date) >> chartSeries(dataxts) >> >> chartSeries(dataxts, type="candlesticks") plots the same graph though: >> http://i.imgur.com/P0Jh0.png >> >> Why is this? >> >> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Adrian Berg <adrian.ber...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> colnames = c("date","price") >>>> data = read.csv(file="data.csv", sep=",", header=F, nrows=261, skip=5, >>>> col.names=colnames) >>>> library(quantmod) >>>> data >>> date price >>> 1 2011-12-18 13.7825 >>> 2 2011-12-11 13.5500 >>> ... >>> ... >>> ... >>> 259 2007-01-07 10.8256 >>> 260 2006-12-31 10.8531 >>> 261 2006-12-24 10.8169 >>> >>> # Here's where I would like to use chartSeries from quantmod, but I'm >>> stumped, so I try several different things >>> >>>> chartSeries(date, price, data=data) >>> Error in try.xts(x, error = "chartSeries requires an xtsible object") : >>> chartSeries requires an xtsible object >>>> ?chartSeries >>>> chartSeries(date, price, type="candlesticks", theme = chartTheme("black")) >>> Error in try.xts(x, error = "chartSeries requires an xtsible object") : >>> chartSeries requires an xtsible object >>>> chartSeries(date, price, type="candlesticks", theme = chartTheme("black"), >>>> subset='2007::2008-01') >>> Error in try.xts(x, error = "chartSeries requires an xtsible object") : >>> chartSeries requires an xtsible object >>> >>> >>> Help is appreciated very much! > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.