Thanks Joshua, Appreciate it!
-- Noah Silverman UCLA Department of Statistics 8208 Math Sciences Building Los Angeles, CA 90095 On May 29, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Joshua Ulrich wrote: > 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. > > Best, > -- > Joshua Ulrich | FOSS Trading: www.fosstrading.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.