Thank you so much Eric! Wonderful to have an R community helping out so quickly!
> Op 12 aug. 2020, om 14:10 heeft Eric Berger <ericjber...@gmail.com> het > volgende geschreven: > > Hi Frederik, > (short answer) modify the assignment statement to > agg_d_h <- rbind( agg_d_h, data.frame(Group.date=next_date,x=0) ) > > Note: replace x=0 by your-variable-name=0 > Note: left-hand-side of the assignment statement should be agg_d_h > > (longer answer) Your approach is far from the best way to do this task, for a > variety of reasons. > If you think that in the future you will be working a lot with daily time > series and need to perform similar tasks, I would strongly recommend learning > the xts data structure in the xts package. > If you have several time series with different date ranges, and all of them > are xts objects, you can merge them with 'joins' (left joins, right joins, > full joins). xts will automatically handle alignment > and preserving dates, etc. > > HTH, > Eric > > > > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 2:44 PM Frederik Feys <fref...@gmail.com > <mailto:fref...@gmail.com>> wrote: > I am having a hell of a time, this must surely be simple to solve…. > > Basically I want to add trailing dates to datasets with differing starting > dates so that across datasets I have the same starting date. > > # make dataset with the same starting date > start_date = as.Date("2020-03-01") > d_start_date = min(agg_d_h$Group.date) > > diff_in_days = as.numeric(difftime(d_start_date, start_date, units = "days")) > > for(i in 1:diff_in_days) { > next_date = start_date+i > app_d <- rbind(agg_d_h, c(next_date, 0) ) > } > > gives: > Error in as.Date.numeric(value) : 'origin' must be supplied > > Thank you for your time to help me! > > Frederik Feys > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org <mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing list -- To > UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > <http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
