[R] Read date for timeserie object

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Objects of class ts are for regualrly spaced time series only.  What you 
have is an irregular time series.

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Jan Verbesselt wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> Is there a simple trick to read in data with the following format and
> create a Time Serie object of it?
> 
> Date	CountOfField2
> 5/10/1998	7
> 5/11/1998	5
> 5/12/1998	2
> 5/14/1998	1
> 5/15/1998	1
> 5/19/1998	1
> 5/20/1998	1
> 5/21/1998	1
> 5/24/1998	2
> 5/25/1998	1
> 5/26/1998	2
> ....
> 2002
> ...

And what does `2002' mean here?

> R should recognize that some dates are not available...(NA). You can
> define start and end date Ok, and frequency= 365 is ok...but is it
> possible that recognizes the gaps?

R does what you program it to do, and you could instruct it to do this.

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