[R] Calculating monthly var-cov matrix on non-overlapping rooling window basis

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

Perhaps something like this:

lapply(split(data1, format(index(data1), "%m")), cov)

On 27/02/2008, Megh Dal <megh700004 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> let create a 'zoo' object :
>
>   library(zoo)
>   date.data = seq(as.Date("01/01/01", format = "%m/%d/%y"), as.Date("06/25/02", format = "%m/%d/%y"), by = 1)
>   len = length(date.data)
>   data1 = zoo(matrix(rnorm(2*len), nrow = len),  date.data )
>   head(data1)
>
>   Now I want to create an 3 dimensional array (suppose name " var.cov") where, var.cov[,,i] gives the Variance-covariance matrix for i-th month of data1. That is I want to calculate monthly variance-covariance matrix on non-overlapping rolling window basis.
>
>   Any suggestion?
>
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