Why does the columnnames reformat my brackets into dots when using DSWS??

WestWinter
WestWinter Newcomer
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So I was using's DatastreamDSWS2R's timeSeriesRequest and I had tried to retrieved some historical data for a few time series (eg XMUJ (NAV) and XMUJ (RI))

My code is:

example <- mydsws$timeSeriesRequest (instrument = df.tickers, startDate = "BDATE', endDate = sys.Date(), frequency = "D")


df.tickers being the column which contains all my tickers for DSWS to retrieve their historical time series.

So the result turned out well, except for the fact that columnnames are distorted and replaced the brackets (eg in XMUJ (NAV) into dots (XMUJ..NAV.).


Anyone knows what's the problem or is this endemic?


Thanks


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  • Jirapongse
    Jirapongse ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @WestWinter

    From my finding, it calls the make.name function to create column names. If I call the make.name function with 'XMUJ (NAV)', it returns 'XMUJ..NAV.'

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    If you would like to change this behavior, please raise an issue in GitHub.

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