Thanks Gabor! Work perfectly! This is the code i used.
z <- read.zoo(lines, header = TRUE, index = list(1, 2), FUN = function(d,t)
as.POSIXct(paste(date,time), format = "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M"))
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Nikos Rachmanis
> <nikos.rachma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Gabor,
> > Thanks very much for the suggestion. It worked well until the point that
> i
> > tried to plot the xts object. here is my code and the error message.
> > lines<-data.frame(date,time,open,high, low,close) #create a dataframe
> with
> > all the variables
> > z <- read.zoo(lines, header = TRUE, index = list(1, 2), FUN = function(d,
> t)
> > as.chron(paste(as.Date(chron(d)), t))) #create the zoo object
> > plot(z) # works fine
> > x<-as.xts(z) #works fine
> > plot(x)
> > Error in parse.format(format[1]) : unrecognized format %b %d %H:%M
> > any ideas?
> > Thanks!
> >
>
> Probably a bug plotting chron objects in xts. Either pot it with zoo
> or use POSIXct and plot it with xts:
>
> plot(z$C)
>
> # or
>
> z <- read.zoo(textConnection(Lines), header = TRUE, index = list(1, 2),
> FUN = function(...) as.POSIXct(paste(...), format = "%m/%d/%Y
> %H:%M"))
> x <- as.xts(z)
> plot(x)
>
>
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