On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Ulrich Staudinger <ustaudin...@gmail.com> wrote: > A bit late, but here is what I always do: > > m = merge(bid, ask, tick) > m<- interpNA(m, method="before") > > intrepNA can also interpolate NAs in different ways, for example linearly. >
Its not clear precisely what sort of objects bid, ask and tick were intended to be in your example but none of the tries below produce 1.1 for Sep 9th as asked for: > library(xts) > library(timeSeries) > A <- xts(c(10,15,20,25), + order.by=as.POSIXct(c("2011-09-01","2011-09-09","2011-09-10","2011-09-15"))) > > B <- xts(c(1.1,1.5,1.3,1.7), + order.by=as.POSIXct(c("2011-08-31","2011-09-09","2011-09-11","2011-09-12"))) > > #1 > interpNA(merge(A, B), method = "before") A B 2011-08-31 NA 1.1 2011-09-01 10 1.1 2011-09-09 15 1.5 2011-09-10 20 1.5 2011-09-11 20 1.3 2011-09-12 20 1.7 2011-09-15 25 NA > > #2 > interpNA(merge(as.timeSeries(A), as.timeSeries(B)), method = "before") GMT TS.1 2011-08-31 1.1 2011-09-01 10.0 2011-09-09 1.5 2011-09-09 15.0 2011-09-10 20.0 2011-09-11 1.3 2011-09-12 1.7 2011-09-15 25.0 > > #3 > interpNA(as.timeSeries(merge(A, B)), method = "before") GMT A B 2011-08-31 NA 1.1 2011-09-01 10 1.1 2011-09-09 15 1.5 2011-09-10 20 1.5 2011-09-11 20 1.3 2011-09-12 20 1.7 2011-09-15 25 NA interpNA seems to use approx underneath so its functionality is similar to na.approx in zoo/xts but with different defaults. -- 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.