On 23/10/2014, 8:56 AM, Robert Sherry wrote:
> I am trying to get the current price of gold for my application. I am
> using the library quantmod. The
> R commands I use are:
> getMetals(c('XAU'), from=Sys.Date(), autoassign = FALSE )
> XAUUSD$XAU.USD[1,1]
>
> I would expect the value in XAUUSD$XAU.USD[1,1] to be a scalar but it
> comes back with a date and a number. All I want is the current value,
> not today's date. How do I just get the value?
That function returns time series objects (of class c("xts", "zoo")).
Use as.numeric() to convert to plain numbers, e.g.
as.numeric(XAUUSD$XAU.USD[1,1])
Duncan Murdoch
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