On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:43:14 -0700 (PDT) afx111 <afx...@yahoo.com> wrote:
A> getSymbols("YHOO") A> retYHOO <- Return.calculate(Cl(YHOO)) A> > sd(retYHOO) A> A> YHOO.Close A> NA A> A> but i received an NA....can any assist? tks! You receive NA because getSymbols went wrong, so YHOO was empty. Try getSymbols('YHOO',src='yahoo',return.class='ts') Btw. there is a r-finance mailing list which is a good place for such questions. Hth Stefan ______________________________________________ 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.