Dear R Helpers, I am trying to adjust the attribute of an R object pulled from quantmod. Since I want to do this for many such objects, I was trying to make the adjustment programmatic. Unfortunately, I am having a huge amount of trouble using attr in combination with paste (and perhaps get, and perhaps assign, none of which seem to help). When I hard-code the change it works fine. Your help would be much appreciated.
require(quantmod) getFin("NYSE:A") attr(NYSE.A.f,"symbol")<-"A" #works fine ticker<-"A" attr(paste("NYSE.",ticker,".f",sep=""),"symbol")<-"A" #doesn't work attr(get(paste("NYSE.",ticker,".f",sep="")),"symbol")<-"A" #nor does this, nor the hundred other combinations I have tried Best wishes, --John J. Sparks, Ph.D. ______________________________________________ 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.