I want to download data using quantmod, save them to files to be loaded later.
The following piece of R code
library(quantmod)
symbols <- c("DEXUSUK", "STLFSI", "GDP")
tmpdir <- tempdir()
getSymbols(symbols, src="FRED")
saveSymbols(symbols, file.path=tmpdir)
rm(list = symbols)
getSymbols(symbols, src="RData", dir=tmpdir, extension="RData")
produces an error on the last line:
Error in `colnames<-`(`*tmp*`, value = c("DEXUSUK.Open", "DEXUSUK.High", : length of 'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent
Yet valid .RData files get created in the temp. location and can be load()-ed individually.
Is this a problem in quantmod (using version 0.4-3 on R 3.1.2) or is this usage invalid?
You need to specify col.names
getSymbols(symbols, src="RData", dir=tmpdir, extension="RData", col.names="Close")
#[1] "DEXUSUK" "STLFSI" "GDP"
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28613295/download-save-load-roundtrip-with-quantmod-in-r