How to do a moving window on standard deviation

I'd rather do this without getting into zoo objects at the moment. OK, how
about with a simple loop ? Why doesn't this work ?

attach(xyz)
j <- for(i in 4: length(Close)) sd(Close[i]:Close[(i-3)])

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