[Rd] Inconsistent behaviour when manipulating a ts object with frequency = 12 or 4

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Attempting to change element 24 of a length 6 time series is inconsistent!
You end up with an invalid series, and the print methods are different for 
different frequencies, hence different error messages.

Please do not send the same post repeatedly!

On Wed, 31 May 2006, Simone Giannerini wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I found the following  under R 2.3.0 on WINXP (tested on 2 PCs, I do
> not have access to Linux from this PC, sorry ... )
>
>> set.seed(10)
>> x <- ts(rnorm(6),frequency=7)
>> x
> Time Series:
> Start = c(1, 1)
> End = c(1, 6)
> Frequency = 7
> [1]  0.01874617 -0.18425254 -1.37133055 -0.59916772  0.29454513  0.38979430
>> x[24] <- NA
>> x
> Time Series:
> Start = c(1, 1)
> End = c(1, 6)
> Frequency = 7
> [1]  0.01874617 -0.18425254 -1.37133055 -0.59916772  0.29454513
> 0.38979430          NA          NA          NA          NA          NA
> [12]          NA          NA          NA          NA          NA
>   NA          NA          NA          NA          NA          NA
> [23]
> ## OK ********************
>
>> x <- ts(rnorm(6),frequency=12) # THE SAME BUT WITH frequency = 12
>> x
>         Jan        Feb        Mar        Apr        May        Jun
> 1 -1.2080762 -0.3636760 -1.6266727 -0.2564784  1.1017795  0.7557815
>> x[24] <- NA
>> x
> Error in matrix(c(rep.int("", start.pad), format(x, ...), rep.int("",  :
>        length of 'dimnames' [1] not equal to array extent
> In addition: Warning message:
> data length [30] is not a sub-multiple or multiple of the number of
> columns [12] in matrix
>
>> x <- ts(rnorm(6),frequency=4) # THE SAME BUT WITH frequency = 4
>> x
>         Qtr1        Qtr2        Qtr3        Qtr4
> 1 -0.23823356  0.98744470  0.74139013  0.08934727
> 2 -0.95494386 -0.19515038
>> x[24] <- NA
>> x
> Error in matrix(c(rep.int("", start.pad), format(x, ...), rep.int("",  :
>        length of 'dimnames' [1] not equal to array extent
> In addition: Warning message:
> data length [26] is not a sub-multiple or multiple of the number of
> rows [7] in matrix
>
>
> Is this behaviour expected for frequencies 12 and 4?
>
> Thank you
>
> Simone
>
> ***************************************************
> platform       i386-pc-mingw32
> arch           i386
> os             mingw32
> system         i386, mingw32
> status
> major          2
> minor          3.0
> year           2006
> month          04
> day            24
> svn rev        37909
> language       R
> version.string Version 2.3.0 (2006-04-24)
>
>> Sys.getlocale()
> [1] "LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252"
>
> ______________________________________________________
>
> Simone Giannerini
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> Universita' di Bologna
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