[R] Calendar Time Series

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:34:10AM -0500, Brian Beckage wrote:
> Does R have any facilities for calendar time series?  I'm working 
> with a 40 year long, daily time series and I would like to have each 
> datum associated with a calendar date.  I searched the R website and 

Did you look at  help(DateTimeClasses)  as well as the corresponding R News
article?

R has excellent facilities to convert human-readable date formats into an
internal representation which can be transformed further using appropriate
cut, seq, round, ... methods, basic comparison, indexing and arithmetic.  

To paraphrase the MasterCard ads: "Having R for this: priceless". 

Dirk

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