How to use Cl() with character?

I have a list of symbols in a csv file and I want to screen for the ones with closing price higher than 5.

I already ran getSymbols for all items in the csv file.

My test runs into error here. I think it's because Cl() doesn't accept characters as arguments. How can I convert character to xts?

> library(quantmod)

> passingset
         V1
1       AAB
2    AAR-UN
3       AAV
4       ABT
5       ABX
       (...)

> class(passingset)
[1] "data.frame"
> class(passingset$V1)
[1] "character"


> #Remove closing price < 5
> for (i in 1:nrow(passingset)){
+   company <- passingset$V1[i]
+   if(Cl(company)[length(Cl(company))] < 5){
+     passingset <- passingset[!(passingset$V1 == company),, drop = FALSE]
+   } else 
+       i = i + 1
+   
+   rm(company)
+ }
**Error in Cl(company) : 
  subscript out of bounds: no column name containing "Close"**

Solution

No need for looping! Assuming you have read the price series with getSymbols as you mentioned above then:

# an example set of tickers:
pasingset <- data.frame(V1=c('CWB','EEM','VTI','NAK','GIG'),stringsAsFactors = F)

# this gets you the last closings of your tickers
lastClose <- sapply(pasingset$V1,function(x) xts::last(Cl(get(x))))

# shows the tickers which have a close > 5
pasingset$V1[which(lastClose > 5)]
[1] "CWB" "EEM" "VTI"