Reading Numeric Data -- Trivial Question

Hi Patrick, thank you for your reply,

Two minor points:

1)  You surely have logarithmic returns rather than the log of (some
type of) returns.

Yes, obviously, my mistake.

2)  Once you get data suitable for a histogram, do:

hist(retr)

I tried that but hist() also expects a numeric vector, and that's
what I can't find out how to do: extracting the data in a suitable
form from the file.

  On "retr;"

I get :
"                V1
1    -9.483434e-04
2     1.817336e-03
3     0.000000e+00
4     1.081303e-02"

and so on until 2527, which is the number of entries.


Thank you again for your reply,
Alex