On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:43 AM, skan <juanp...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a zoo series. It lasts 10 years and its frequency is 15min. > > I'd like to get a new zoo series (or vector) with the same number of > elements, whith each element equal to the first element of the day. That's, > The first element everyday is repeated throughout the wole day. > > This is not same as aggregate(originalseries,as.Date,head,1) because this > gives a vector with just one element for each day.
Try ave: > library(zoo) > library(chron) > zz <- z <- zoo(1:100, chron(0:9/5)) > zz[] <- ave(coredata(z), as.Date(time(z)), FUN = function(x) head(x, 1)) > cbind(z, zz) z zz (01/01/70 00:00:00) 1 1 (01/01/70 04:48:00) 2 1 (01/01/70 09:36:00) 3 1 (01/01/70 14:24:00) 4 1 (01/01/70 19:12:00) 5 1 (01/02/70 00:00:00) 6 6 (01/02/70 04:48:00) 7 6 (01/02/70 09:36:00) 8 6 (01/02/70 14:24:00) 9 6 (01/02/70 19:12:00) 10 6 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.