Try this. After defining our data, tt and x, we create a zoo series z by aggregating over days taking the last point corresponding to each day. Then we convert that to ts (which fills in the missing days) and create a zoo series with no data and those times merging it with the original zoo series and specifying fill = 0.
library(zoo) # create zoo series, z, by taking last point corresponding to each day tt <- c("2003-03-05", "2003-03-05", "2003-05-05" ,"2003-04-07" ,"2003-03-05") x <- 1:5 z <- aggregate(zoo(x), as.Date(tt), tail, 1) merge(z, zoo(, time(as.ts(z))), fill = 0) # alternative to last line is the following: longer but no warning # only change is inserting of as.Date(unclass(...)) to force Date class merge(z, zoo(, as.Date(unclass(time(as.ts(z))))), fill = 0) On 9/12/07, Nirav Mehta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy! > > I am attempting to convert a date frame with irregular dates into a > regular time series, aggregated by date. i have tried using both the > 'its' and 'zoo' packages. > > I have something like > > times<-c("2003-03-05", "2003-03-05", "2003-05-05" ,"2003-04-07" ,"2003-03-05") > aarf<-data.frame(times) > aarf$x<-runif(5) > > what i want in the end, is a daily time series, aggregating x by day, > and filling in days where there are no data with 0. > > I have tried, similarly to another help request, the aggregating once > I have zoo-class data, but my dates disappear, and instead I get > things like 12772 and so on for the various dates. I thought that > these 5-digit numbers were maybe the number of days past Jan 1, 1970, > but dividing these numbers by the number of days in a year gets me out > of my data range. > > Also, applying as.ts() to my zoo data gives me a regularly spaced time > series that ignores the timing imposed in zoo. > > Similarly, I can convert the series to an 'its' object, but then > cannot convert the 'its' object to a regular time series with 0 filled > in where I have no observations, since the 'its' arithmitic only > returns the intersection of addition of two its vectors. > > Thanks, > Nirav Mehta > > ______________________________________________ > 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.