If you wish to 'skip' (i.e. not interpolate) weekends in its, you could use the following:
prices <- priceIts(instrument="ongc.ns") plot(union(prices,newIts(start=start(prices),end=end(prices))),interp="none" ) - Giles > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dirk > Eddelbuettel > Sent: 03 March 2004 16:02 > To: Ajay Shah > Cc: r-help > Subject: Re: [R] get.hist.quote - is great, but am I missing > something? > > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 03:25:14PM +0530, Ajay Shah wrote: > > 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) > > a) use plotOHLC(x), not plot(), PlotOHLC is also in tseries. > > b) install the its package which has a variant of get.hist.quote > and plots that too (though it doesn;t skip weekends) > > > 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? > > So are you intending to contribute one? > > > 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? > > class(x) > str(x) > ... > > Hth, Dirk > > -- > The relationship between the computed price and reality is as > yet unknown. > -- From the > pac(8) manual page > > ______________________________________________ > [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 ********************************************************************** This is a commercial communication from Commerzbank AG.\ \ T...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [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