[Rd] window(): feature request

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Wolfgang Koller wrote:

> Dear R-developpers,
> 
> currently the function window shows the following behaviour, if start or
> end is out of range:
> 
> > x <- ts(1:14,start=c(1950,2),frequency=4)
> > y <- window(x,start=c(1950,1),end=c(1953,4))
> Warning messages: 
> 1: start value not changed in: window.default(x, ...) 
> 2: end value not changed in: window.default(x, ...) 
> 
> Instead of this I would like it to fill with NAs the values before start(x)
> and after end(x). Could this be done by introducing an additional option in
> window()? Could you please consider this in future releases? Or is there a
> better way to do this using existing functions?

This is incompatible with S and the existing behaviour, so I have added a
new argument `extend' defaulting to FALSE. The new version is in the
R-devel distribution, so will not appear in a released version until 1.1.0.

> P.S.: Below I have added some code that accomplishes this aim in a separate
> function (which is probably an example of akward programming...).

[It does not handle matrix ts objects, for example, nor does it handle
changing the frequency.]

[code snipped.]

PS: R-bugs now has a `wishlist' section, so sending a feature request as a
bug report is a way to ensure it gets recorded.

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