Hi G See,

Thanks but I have been watching "?merge" hundreds of times...

It's very terse and there are lots of hidden tricks...

Thanks a lot any way!

And thanks a lot for all the help folks!

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:53 AM, G See <[email protected]> wrote:

> Michael,
>
> Maybe you do not realize that when someone writes a word with a
> question mark in front of it, it means that you should look at the
> help page for that function.  For example, if you type "?merge" in an
> R terminal (without the quotes) it will open the help page for that
> function.  Another option is to type help(merge)
>
> Hope this makes it easier for you to find answers in the future,
> Garrett
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Oh I forgot one thing:
> >
> > xts_one and xts_two are not neccessarily the same length...
> >
> > In effect, I was looking for a time series set-operation "intersect"....
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Jun Zhu <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>   Assume you are testing the first column
> >>
> >> l_result <- ifelse(l_xts_one[,1] == l_xts_two[,1], l_xts_one[,1],NA)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --- On *Mon, 1/23/12, Brian G. Peterson <[email protected]>* wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> From: Brian G. Peterson <[email protected]>
> >> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] How do I intersecttwo time series?
> >> To: "Michael" <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: "r-sig-finance" <[email protected]>
> >> Date: Monday, January 23, 2012, 8:25 AM
> >>
> >>   On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 08:06 -0600, Michael wrote:
> >> > I have two xts objects...and they have coulmns with the same names.ie
> >> > their column represent the same variables.
> >> >
> >> > The only difference is that the values in the rows may be different.
> >> > At
> >> > precisely the same timestamps the observations can be exactly the
> >> > same.
> >> >
> >> > How do I find the intersection of these two time series ie the rows
> >> > where
> >> > the observations are identical including the time stamps?
> >> >
> >> > How do I find intersection where a few specified coulmns are identical
> >> > including the time stamps?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks a lot!
> >>
> >> ?merge
> >>
> >> ?ifelse
> >>
> >> merge is amply covered in the xts documentation, and ifelse is covered
> >> in many write-ups on vectorized operations in R.
> >>
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