I find it's just great to be able to say: library(tseries) x <- get.hist.quote(instrument="ongc.ns")
and it gets a full time-series of the stock price of the symbol ongc.ns from Yahoo quote. However, once my hopes have been raised by such beauty :-) I get disappointed when I do > plot(x) and the annotation is horrible! The x axis is not labelled as dates. The default plot method for get.hist.quote should be better, no? I was not able to understand the object returned by get.hist.quote. If I say: > summary(x) Open High Low Close Min. : 397.0 Min. : 407.3 Min. :395.1 Min. :398.4 1st Qu.: 494.2 1st Qu.: 501.4 1st Qu.:482.7 1st Qu.:490.4 Median : 614.9 Median : 622.7 Median :600.7 Median :610.0 Mean : 615.6 Mean : 627.1 Mean :599.7 Mean :611.9 3rd Qu.: 690.5 3rd Qu.: 707.4 3rd Qu.:676.2 3rd Qu.:691.5 Max. :1000.0 Max. :1000.0 Max. :930.0 Max. :944.9 NA's : 88.0 NA's : 88.0 NA's : 88.0 NA's : 88.0 there is no mention of a 'time' variable. And, I'm unable to extract (say) a vector of closing prices - e.g. if I say: > closingprices <- x$Close > print(closingprices) NULL I guess I'm not understanding the object that get.hist.quote makes. In general, what are R facilities for discovering what a given object is? -- Ajay Shah Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economic Affairs http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah Ministry of Finance, New Delhi ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html