Thanks David. You mentioned that I need to insert an extra cell and move the header over one position. I tried for a few times but still coudnt figure out how. Can you pls advise? Many thanks. On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 11:55 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>wrote:
> > On Oct 9, 2010, at 10:54 PM, missvanilla wrote: > > >> Dear all, >> >> I'm totally new to R. Recently I've been trying to use getYahooData in TTR >> package in order to download stock index daily open/high/low/close. The >> downloaded data is in the format of >> >> Open High Low Close Volume >> 2000-01-04 18937.45 19187.61 18937.45 19002.86 0 >> 2000-01-05 19003.51 19003.51 18221.82 18542.55 0 >> 2000-01-06 18574.01 18582.74 18168.27 18168.27 0 >> 2000-01-07 18194.05 18285.73 18068.10 18193.41 0 >> 2000-01-11 18246.10 18887.56 18246.10 18850.92 0 >> 2000-01-12 18780.17 18811.87 18626.92 18677.42 0 >> 2000-01-13 18667.18 18845.03 18667.18 18833.29 0 >> 2000-01-14 18882.99 19058.02 18733.83 18956.55 0 >> 2000-01-17 19025.62 19442.58 19025.62 19437.23 0 >> 2000-01-18 19412.47 19412.47 19145.17 19196.57 0 >> >> However, when I attempted to write the data to excel using write.table, >> dates in the first colume become 1,2,3,4 in the excel file. Same problem >> happened if write.csv was used. >> >> If you run these two lines of code you'll get what I meant.. before >> running >> the code, package TTR needs to be loaded. >> >> N225 <- getYahooData("^N225", 20000101, ) >>> write.table(N225,"Nikkei.xls",sep='\t', row.name = TRUE , col.name = NA) >>> >> > There is a well-described problem with write.table files going into Excel. > There is no leading item or tab on the first row. You need to insert an > extra cell and move the header over one position. Then you won't be > misinterpreting your row.names as dates. > > -- > David > > >> Appreciate your kind assistance! Thanks a lot in advance. >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Help-needed-for-getYahooData-in-TTR-package-writing-the-Yahoo-data-to-excel-tp2970017p2970017.html >> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.