Thanks for this timely post for me. I'm missing something in cat to get file.rename to work for me. cat puts a NULL at the end of a string. Error: downloading MSFT .....trying URL 'http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=MSFT&a=1&b=19&c=2003&d=9&e=17&f=2012&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=MSFT&x=.csv' Content type 'text/csv' length unknown opened URL downloaded 119 Kbdone. MSFT _Divs.csvNULL Error in file.rename("Stock_Divs.csv", file_name) : invalid 'to' argument Execution halted Code: library(quantmod)## ## Merge Date OHLC with dividend on ex-dividend date ## ticker<-c("MSFT","KMI") Divs_Per_Year<-4for (i in 1:2) { Divs<-getDividends(ticker[i]) Stock<-getSymbols.yahoo(ticker[i], from = start(Divs), src = "yahoo", verbose=TRUE, auto.assign=FALSE) Stock_Divs<-merge(Stock,Divs,fill=0.0) write.zoo(Stock_Divs, file = "Stock_Divs.csv", append = FALSE, quote = TRUE, sep = ",") file_name<- cat(ticker[i],"_Divs.csv") print(file_name) print file.rename("Stock_Divs.csv",file_name) } Best, FrankChicago > From: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:47:27 +0100 > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [R] Moving a file from one location to another > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Rui Barradas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Windows this should be the old DOS command RENAME (or REN) and apparently > > the R function ?file.rename carries it's name. > > > > I wasn't aware of the file.*() functions -- I'll of course retract my > statement that this has to be OS direct via system(). Thanks for that > Rui! > > Cheers, > Michael > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
