The plotOHLC function in the tseries package is useful to plot timeseries of various financial assets with open/high/low/close data. I had often wondered if it could be made to run a little faster. It turns out that the following patch does
--- plotOHLC.R.orig 2003-12-14 12:02:20.000000000 -0600 +++ plotOHLC.R 2003-12-14 12:03:42.000000000 -0600 @@ -21,14 +21,9 @@ ylim <- range(x[is.finite(x)]) plot.new() plot.window(xlim, ylim, ...) - for (i in 1:NROW(x)) { - segments(time.x[i], x[i, "High"], time.x[i], x[i, "Low"], - col = col[1], bg = bg) - segments(time.x[i] - dt, x[i, "Open"], time.x[i], x[i, - "Open"], col = col[1], bg = bg) - segments(time.x[i], x[i, "Close"], time.x[i] + dt, x[i, - "Close"], col = col[1], bg = bg) - } + segments(time.x, x[, "High"], time.x, x[, "Low"], col = col[1], bg = bg) + segments(time.x - dt, x[, "Open"], time.x, x[, "Open"], col = col[1], bg = bg) + segments(time.x, x[, "Close"], time.x + dt, x[, "Close"], col = col[1], bg = bg) if (ann) title(main = main, xlab = xlab, ylab = ylab, ...) if (axes) { decrease the time spent on a series of ~500 points by a factor of sixty: > IBM<-get.hist.quote("IBM", "2001-12-14") trying URL http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=IBM&a=11&b=13&c=2001&d=11&e=12&f=2003&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=IBM&x=.csv' Content type application/octet-stream' length unknown opened URL .......... .......... ... downloaded 23Kb time series starts 2001-12-12 time series ends 2003-12-11 > system.time(plotOHLC(IBM)) # original [1] 1.56 0.26 5.11 0.00 0.00 > system.time(fastplotOHLC(IBM)) # patched [1] 0.02 0.00 0.05 0.00 0.00 Regards, Dirk -- Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. -- Groucho Marx ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help