Hi Doug, You can use getInstrument to see the instruments
e.g. stock("SPY", currency("USD")) getInstrument("USD") getInstrument("SPY") Please take a look at the files in the demo directory (https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/pkg/FinancialInstrument/demo/FIdemo2.R?view=markup&root=blotter) You'll also probably be interested in ?buildHierarchy build_series_symbols does nothing but return a character vector and it does not store it anywhere and it does not create any instruments. (I personally use future_id from the twsInstrument package to serve the purpose of build_series_symbols) HTH, Garrett On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Doug Edmunds <dougedmu...@gmail.com> wrote: > How can I see what the names of variables and what is being stored > in them when running functions in the FinancialInstrument package? I am > using R-Studio. > > For example, running: >> currency("USD") > outputs this to the console window: > [1] "USD" > > but gives me no clue as to where that value is being > stored or how to access it. > > Similarly, reading a tutorial such as: > > http://blog.fosstrading.com/2011/07/creating-financial-instrument-metadata.html, > it says: > > "build_series_symbols returns a vector of series symbols that we could use > to request data or create future_series instruments." > > But what is the name of the vector? Where is it stored? > > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Finance@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance > -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. > -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions > should go. _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Finance@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions should go.