Hi, I have several xts objects that are historical quotes downloaded as such:
library(quantmod) > getSymbols("AA") > head(AA) AA.Open AA.High AA.Low AA.Close AA.Volume AA.Adjusted 2007-01-03 30.05 30.06 29.17 29.33 8176300 26.89 2007-01-04 29.33 29.40 28.81 29.11 5655800 26.69 2007-01-05 29.11 29.24 28.49 28.76 7453100 26.37 2007-01-08 28.87 29.02 28.28 28.48 10276100 26.12 2007-01-09 28.70 28.88 28.09 28.52 12511700 26.15 2007-01-10 29.57 30.36 29.21 30.23 23283400 27.72 For the sake of simplicity, let's say I have 3 times series - AA, AXP, and BA. Further, let's say I have a vector that contains these three symbols which is also their object name. > x <- c("AA", "AXP", "BA") What I would like to be able to do is it use that vector to "copy" one column from each of my xts objects (AA, AXP, & BA) and to create a new xts object. It would look just like the output from this command, but I want to do this without having to enumerate each object. Rather, I would like to be able to simply pass the vector of tickers "x", and then specify the relevant column. > head(merge(AA[,1], AXP[,1], BA[,1])) AA.Open AXP.Open BA.Open 2007-01-03 30.05 61.18 88.90 2007-01-04 29.33 60.23 88.34 2007-01-05 29.11 59.65 89.78 2007-01-08 28.87 59.03 88.61 2007-01-09 28.70 59.90 88.93 2007-01-10 29.57 59.24 88.04 Is there a way that this can be achieved without using a loop to merge them together one by one? Thank you. James ______________________________________________ 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.