new to R coding.

I am new to R coding and I am trying to model the returns on the ftse100
since 1990. I have got a vector with all the closing values on each trading
day. however, instead of using the difference in the closing values of two
consecutive days, (ie dx=diff(x) where x is the vector containing the
closing values), i wanted to use the quotient of the two closing values. I
have tried the following without any luck

x = c (2434.1 2463.7 2451.6 2444.5 2431.3 2436.3 2412.6 2417.9 2380.1
2366.2

2349.1 2373.9 2336.9 2335.0 2297.1 2291.1 2278.6 2289.9 2314.5 2328.8
  2322.0 2337.3 2345.8 2355.1 2348.4 2321.1 2307.4 2331.0 2313.6 2286.9
  2293.2 2298.3 2313.8 2325.9 2297.1 2277.0 2259.7 2269.2 2236.7 2249.3
  2254.8 2255.4 2238.4 2254.8 2230.5 2216.0 2230.3 2250.0 2234.3 2222.8
  2224.5 2226.1 2234.9 2263.9 2238.0 2259.7 2250.3 2258.9 2283.9 2298.2
  2266.2 2275.0 2263.0 2247.9 2221.6 2240.7 2231.6 2239.5 2221.1)
#extraction of the stock index returns

n=length(x)
d=diff (log(x)) # daily log returns

for (i in 2:n) {

+ dx[i]=(d[i])/(d[i-1])
+ delta=dx[i]
+ } # this is what I have tried to do. 
how do i do this properly in R please.


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