[R] colClasses

[Kerpel, John]

Read.zoo did it!  Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendieck at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 3:15 PM
To: Kerpel, John
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] colClasses

Peter has already directly answered your question but in case
what you really want is a zoo time series object (applicable
if this is a time series) then see the example in ?read.zoo in the
zoo package.  Also,

  library(zoo); vignette("zoo")

gives info on zoo package.

On 6/21/06, Kerpel, John <John.Kerpel at infores.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks!
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> I'm reading in some data from a .csv file that has a date column.
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> How do I use colClasses to get read.csv to recognize the date column?
> The documentation on this seems to be nil -
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> And yes, I've read help and R Data Import/Export and can't figure out
> what the colClasses syntax is.
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> Thanks,
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> john
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