[Rd] irregular time-series
Paul Gilbert
pgilbert at bank-banque-canada.ca
Fri Jun 6 11:02:33 MEST 2003
Heywood, Giles wrote:
>I make quite a lot of use of irregular time-series, and had already spent a
>bit of time writing an 'its' class when the 'irts' class was released via
>the package 'tseries'.
>
>I have experimented with the 'irts' class, and have some practical issues
>with its use. In some applications of irregular time-series (in my case
>these are financial and econometric) there are many instances where it is
>useful to consider them as an extension (subclass) of the class 'matrix',
>using S4 class inheritance. This is also useful in printing.
>
>The 'its' class I have written is an S4 extension of the matrix class, using
>a single slot for a POSIX dates vector, which time-indexes the rows. The
>practical advantage of this, compared to the 'irts' class, is that the
>matrix methods are inherited.
>
>In addition to file operations and some simple functions, I have also
>written a number of method extensions for this 'its' class, including [.its,
>[[.its, intersect, union, diff, lag.
>
>Is there value in such a package, given the resemblance of 'its' to the
>existing 'irts' class? I would be happy to contribute it, and provide some
>maintenance.
>
Yes, I think so. There seem to be different ways to do these things and
some work better than others, often for reasons that are not obvious in
the beginning.
>
>Giles Heywood
>Senior Quantitative Analyst
>Commerzbank Securities
>
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