On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:56 AM, John E. Kaprich <jkapr...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I try to convert the zoo object to a timeSeries object, which would > allow me to utilize Rmetrics packages, I get an error message. > > > >> Data<-read.zoo("c:\\DOWUBSPRICING.txt,na.strings="NA",sep="\t",header=T) >> is(Data) > "zoo" >> as.timeSeries.zoo(Data) > Error in .local (.Object, . ) > > Is this happening because I am using daily data? Originally, I was trying to > import the data as a timeSeries, but could not overcome problems with the > date configuration. I tried to create a zoo object with the intention of > converting it into a timeSeries. > > My apologies if this is too basic a question, but I am new to R and have > been struggling with this problem. > > The object in question contains daily adjusting closing price data. > > DJP JJA COW > > 2011/1/21 49.01 64.68 30.97 > 2011/1/20 48.62 63.78 31.11 > > .
There are a different number of headings and columns so the dates are being interpreted as row names. Try this: Lines <- " DJP JJA COW 2011/1/21 49.01 64.68 30.97 2011/1/20 48.62 63.78 31.11" library(zoo) DF <- read.table(textConnection(Lines)) z <- zoo(DF, rownames(DF)) -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.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.