[R] feeding merge.zoo a vector containing the names of zoo objects?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try using do.call:

library(tseries)
adjClose0 <- sapply(LETTERS[1:3], get.hist.quote, quote = "AdjClose",
    simplify = FALSE)
adjClose <- do.call(merge, c(adjClose0, retclass = "data.frame"))


On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 9:37 AM, rich.p.martin <rich.p.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, the snippet of code below works, but I would like to know how to feed the
> function merge.zoo the contents of
> CADstocknames rather than having to hard code it into the merge.zoo command.
> I think I must be missing something simple, but I cannot for the life of me
> figure it out.  Thanks in advance for any enlightenment offered.
>
>
> library(zoo)
> CADstocknames <-  c("xbb.to","xsb.to","xiu.to")
> for(i in 1:length(CADstocknames)){
> assign(CADstocknames[i], get.hist.quote(CADstocknames[i],quote =
> "AdjClose"))
> }
> mergedCAD <- merge.zoo(xbb.to,xsb.to,xiu.to, all = TRUE, retclass
> ="data.frame")
> tail(mergedCAD)
>
>
>
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