I believe (unchecked) that you need OHLC data for candlesticks. You can use to.TTT functions to make some from your daily data.
> Both
>> barChart(dataxts,bar.type='hlc')
>> candleChart(dataxts)
> give the same results as well.
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Adrian Berg <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Thanks to mrflick on Freenode, I was able to get chartSeries to plot the data.
>>
>> data$date<-strptime(data$date, format="%Y-%m-%d")
>> dataxts<-xts(data$price, order.by=data$date)
>> chartSeries(dataxts)
>>
>> chartSeries(dataxts, type="candlesticks") plots the same graph though:
>>
http://i.imgur.com/P0Jh0.png>>
>> Why is this?
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Adrian Berg <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>> colnames = c("date","price")
>>>> data = read.csv(file="data.csv", sep=",", header=F, nrows=261, skip=5, col.names=colnames)
>>>> library(quantmod)
>>>> data
>>> date price
>>> 1 2011-12-18 13.7825
>>> 2 2011-12-11 13.5500
>>> ...
>>> ...
>>> ...
>>> 259 2007-01-07 10.8256
>>> 260 2006-12-31 10.8531
>>> 261 2006-12-24 10.8169
>>>
>>> # Here's where I would like to use chartSeries from quantmod, but I'm
>>> stumped, so I try several different things
>>>
>>>> chartSeries(date, price, data=data)
>>> Error in try.xts(x, error = "chartSeries requires an xtsible object") :
>>> chartSeries requires an xtsible object
>>>> ?chartSeries
>>>> chartSeries(date, price, type="candlesticks", theme = chartTheme("black"))
>>> Error in try.xts(x, error = "chartSeries requires an xtsible object") :
>>> chartSeries requires an xtsible object
>>>> chartSeries(date, price, type="candlesticks", theme = chartTheme("black"), subset='2007::2008-01')
>>> Error in try.xts(x, error = "chartSeries requires an xtsible object") :
>>> chartSeries requires an xtsible object
>>>
>>>
>>> Help is appreciated very much!
>
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