is there a statement of work for the summer of code work. On May 29, 2012 12:19 PM, "Joshua Ulrich" <josh.m.ulr...@gmail.com> 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 > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[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.
