I have a dataframe called x2. It seems to have a date column but I can't access it or give it a name or convert it to a date. How do I refer to that first column and make it a date ? When I try x2[1,] I get the second column.
head(x2) FAIRX SP500 delta 2000-08-31 0.010101096 0.007426964 0.002674132 2000-09-29 0.096679730 -0.054966292 0.151646023 2000-10-31 -0.008245580 -0.004961785 -0.003283795 2000-11-30 0.037024545 -0.083456134 0.120480679 2000-12-29 0.080042708 0.004045193 0.075997514 2001-01-31 -0.009042396 0.034050246 -0.043092643 x[1,1] FAIRX 2000-08-31 0.01010110 x[1,2] SP500 2000-08-31 0.007426964 str(x2) 'data.frame': 127 obs. of 3 variables: $ FAIRX: num 0.0101 0.09668 -0.00825 0.03702 0.08004 ... $ SP500: num 0.00743 -0.05497 -0.00496 -0.08346 0.00405 ... $ delta: num 0.00267 0.15165 -0.00328 0.12048 0.076 .. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Accessing-DF-index-tp3314649p3314649.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.