See zoo-faq number 4: vignette("zoo-faq")
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Mark Breman<breman.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have a csv file with different datatypes: > > 2009-01-01, character1, 10, 20.1 > 2009-01-02, character2, 11, 21.1 > > (I have attached the file to this post) > > I read this file with read.zoo as I want a zoo/xts timeseries: >> t = read.zoo("./data.txt", sep=",", dec = ".", header=FALSE) > > If I look at the zoo data all integer/numeric columns are read as > character: >> str(t) > ‘zoo’ series from 2009-01-01 to 2009-01-02 > Data: chr [1:2, 1:3] " character1" " character2" "10" "11" "20.1" "21.1" > - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2 > ..$ : NULL > ..$ : chr [1:3] "V2" "V3" "V4" > Index: Class 'Date' num [1:2] 14245 14246 > > So I try the colClasses parameter with read.zoo but it looks like this does > not make any difference: >> t1 = read.zoo("./data.txt", sep=",", dec = ".", header=FALSE, > colClasses=c("Date", "character", "integer", "numeric")) >> str(t1) > ‘zoo’ series from 2009-01-01 to 2009-01-02 > Data: chr [1:2, 1:3] " character1" " character2" "10" "11" "20.1" "21.1" > - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2 > ..$ : NULL > ..$ : chr [1:3] "V2" "V3" "V4" > Index: Class 'Date' num [1:2] 14245 14246 > > Why does read.zoo ignores the colClasses parameter and how do I get > integer/numeric data into my zoo series? > > Regards, > > -Mark- > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > ______________________________________________ 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.