Hi John, Here's one way to do it: vec <- c(2,4,5) yrs <- seq(from=as.Date("1991-01-01"),by="1 year",length=length(vec)) a <- xts(x=vec, order.by=yrs)
HTH, Eric On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 9:56 AM, John <miao...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to make a time series at an annual frequency. > > > a<-xts(x=c(2,4,5), order.by=c("1991","1992","1993")) > Error in xts(x = c(2, 4, 5), order.by = c("1991", "1992", "1993")) : > order.by requires an appropriate time-based object > > a<-xts(x=c(2,4,5), order.by=1991:1993) > Error in xts(x = c(2, 4, 5), order.by = 1991:1993) : > order.by requires an appropriate time-based object > > How should I do it? I know that to do for quarterly or monthly time > series, we use as.yearqtr or as.yearmon. What about annual? > > Thanks, > > John > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.