You can use names using your example ts series like this x[, "Juan"]
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:04 AM, David Stoffer <dsstof...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the help. My basic problem is that I have given my series names, > but I still have to call them number 1, 2, and so on, to do things with > them. If I want to compare "GNP" with "Private Investment", I have to > remember which columns contains those series. > > The concern I have is that I'm giving these data sets to other people. Now, > if give someone a data frame, I can ask them to compare John with Martha > without them having to know (or remember) that John's data are in column 93 > and Martha's are in column 22. I'd like to do the same thing with a time > series matrix. > > > David > > > > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> >> zoo objects can have one column with a heading and convert back >> faithfully to ts: >> >>> library(zoo) >>> as.zoo(x)[, 1, drop = FALSE] >> Juan >> 1(1) -0.37415224 >> 1(2) -0.30875111 >> 1(3) -0.02617545 >> 1(4) -0.45053564 >> 2(1) 0.15173749 >> 2(2) 1.38545761 >> 2(3) 2.11594058 >> 2(4) -0.84970010 >> 3(1) -0.05944844 >> 3(2) 1.27543030 >>> tsp(x) >> [1] 1.00 3.25 4.00 >>> tsp(as.ts(as.zoo(x))) >> [1] 1.00 3.25 4.00 >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:15 PM, David Stoffer <dsstof...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Suppose I have multiple time series with names for each one, for example, >>> >>> x <- ts(matrix(rnorm(30,0,1),10,3), names=c("Juan", "Tuey", "Trey"), >>> frequency=4) >>> >>> So now, as I start to explore these series, if I do everything at once, >>> the >>> names >>> stay attached to the series. For example, >>> plot(x) # gives a plot of the series with their names >>> acf(x) # gives the ACFs & CCFs with names attached >>> >>> But if I want to explore what's going on with Juan, from what I can >>> gather, >>> I have to do something like this >>> plot(x[,1]) >>> (or acf(x[,1])... or similar things) but this doesn't keep the name Juan. >>> >>> My question: Is there a way, without making a data frame [which seems to >>> destroy the >>> time series attributes(??) - this seems to be the only answer I can find >>> on >>> Rhelp] >>> that allows me to keep track of the names? That way, for example, I >>> don't >>> have to >>> remember that the 18th series is Martha. >>> >>> x$Juan, x$Tuey, x$Trey, would be nice ... but that doesn't work. >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism >>> by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://www.nabble.com/Multiple-time-series-and-their-names-tp25725411p25725411.html >>> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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. >>> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> >> > > > ----- > The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism > by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Multiple-time-series-and-their-names-tp25725411p25729650.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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. > ______________________________________________ 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.