On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Santosh Srinivas <santosh.srini...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wow! That’s Amazing! Many thanks! > > When I do the below ... why do the column names get thrown off? Ticker is a > factor / character ... I tried both > >> temp <- head(MF_Data_Sub) >> temp > Date Ticker Price > 1 2008-04-01 106270 10.3287 > 2 2008-04-01 106269 10.3287 > 3 2008-04-01 102767 12.6832 > 4 2008-04-01 102766 10.5396 > 5 2008-04-01 102855 9.7833 > 6 2008-04-01 102856 12.1485 >> tZoo <- read.zoo(temp,split=2) >> tZoo > X102766 X102767 X102855 X102856 X106269 X106270 > 2008-04-01 10.5396 12.6832 9.7833 12.1485 10.3287 10.3287
It automatically makes the names valid variable names for R as does data.frame in R. If you do not want that behavior add the check.names = FALSE argument to read.zoo . > Also, is there an easy way to do a return profile on the data below after it > is transformed? > What is a "profile on the data"? These all work: str(z); summary(z); View(z) -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.
