On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Noah Silverman <noahsilver...@ucla.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed something odd when working with data frames and xts objects. > > If I read in a CSV file, R creates a nice data.frame. This works well. > > If I then convert to an XTS object, I see that all the values in the data are > now quoted. My data is a mix of numeric and character. This is usually seen > when converting a data.frame to a matrix, as R will treat all the data as the > same class. (character) > > How can I ensure that R creates an XTS object that is still a data.frame so > that all the data are the correct type?? > You can't. xts/zoo objects are a matrix with an index attribute. Since you can't mix types in a matrix, you can't mix types in an xts/zoo object. That said, part of the xts Google Summer of Code project is to create an xts-like object that allows mixed types.
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