Thanks Joshua,
Appreciate it!
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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
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