[R] making zoo objects with zoo without format argument?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

This was fixed in the zoo devel version (to be zoo 1.5-4) just last week.  See:

http://r-forge.r-project.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/*checkout*/pkg/NEWS?rev=487&root=zoo

You can either wait for that, use the workaround you found or source
the fixed version
of plot.zoo:

source("http://r-forge.r-project.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/*checkout*/pkg/R/plot.zoo.R?rev=472&root=zoo")

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:37 AM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> wrote:
> n <-
> c("f","m","a","m","j","j","a","s","o","n","d","j","f","m","a","m","j","j","a","s","o","n","d","j")
> plot(x.zoo[, 95], xaxt = "n", ylim=c(1,2))
> rng <- range(time(x.zoo))
> axis(1, at = seq(rng[1], rng[2], 1/12), labels = n, tcl = -0.3)
>
> #why do I have to put in the y-lim explicitly?  If you try the below code I
> get a warning- Error in plot.window(...) : invalid 'ylim' value
>
> plot(x.zoo[, 95], xaxt = "n")
> rng <- range(time(x.zoo))
> axis(1, at = seq(rng[1], rng[2], 1/12), labels = n, tcl = -0.3)
>
> #thanks Stephen
>
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Its a bug in axis.zoo.  I have just fixed it in the svn repository so try
>> this:
>>
>>
>> source("http://r-forge.r-project.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/*checkout*/pkg/R/yearmon.R?rev=485&root=zoo")
>> plot(x.zoo[, 25])
>>
>> axis.zoo uses the same algorithm as axis.Date in R and so it gives
>> similar results:
>>
>> # uses axis.Date
>> plot(aggregate(x.zoo[, 25], as.Date, force))
>>
>> You may wish to try a custom axis:
>>
>> plot(x.zoo[, 25], xaxt = "n")
>> rng <- range(time(x.zoo))
>> axis(1, at = seq(rng[1], rng[2], 1/12), labels = FALSE, tcl = -0.3)
>> axis(1, at = seq(floor(rng[1]), floor(rng[2])))
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:34 PM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > That worked fine- now one more question-
>> > plot(x.zoo[,25])
>> > produces a graph with True as the first label on the x-axis
>> > 1. why?
>> > 2. is it wrong to assume this is february 2006?
>> >
>> > thanks
>> >
>> > stephen
>> > R2.7.1 Windows XP (I updated zoo last week when I installed 2.7.1)
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
>> > <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:59 PM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > x.zoo <- zoo(x,as.yearmon(as.character(x$Yearmonth), "%Y-%m"))
>> >> > plot(x.zoo[,25])
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 1. You are trying to pass data frame to zoo whereas it must be a
>> >> numeric
>> >> vector,
>> >> matrix or a factor.  See ?zoo and try this:
>> >>
>> >> x.zoo <- zoo(data.matrix(x), as.yearmon(x$Yearmonth, format = "%Y-%m"))
>> >>
>> >> 2. You don't need as.character (it won't hurt but its unnecessary)
>> >> since
>> >> as.yearmon has a factor method.   You only need as.character in the
>> >> situation cited in the last post.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > #Error in plot.window(...) : invalid 'ylim' value
>> >> > #there are values
>> >> >
>> >> > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
>> >> > <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
>> >> >> <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >> > There is no data in your data frame, just index info, so I assume
>> >> >> > you
>> >> >> > want a zero width time series:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > zoo(, as.yearmon(x$Yearmonth, "%Y-%m"))
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > This also works but then you are left with a character date which
>> >> >> > you
>> >> >> > may not want:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > zoo(, x$Yearmonth)
>> >> >>
>> >> >> This last one should have been:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> zoo(, as.character(x$Yearmon))
>> >> >>
>> >> >> since your data frame holds a factor rather than character column.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:43 PM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com>
>> >> >> > wrote:
>> >> >> >> #this is a subset of a larger data frame and I am okay with
>> >> >> >> subsetting
>> >> >> >> it as
>> >> >> >> there are redundant time stamps, but I would like to create a zoo
>> >> >> >> object out
>> >> >> >> of this and I am having a hard #time figuring out how to do this
>> >> >> >>  the
>> >> >> >> date
>> >> >> >> structure is  year and then month
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> x <- structure(list(Yearmonth = structure(c(12L, 24L, 1L, 13L,
>> >> >> >> 14L,
>> >> >> >> 3L, 15L, 4L, 16L, 5L, 17L, 6L, 18L, 7L, 19L, 8L, 20L, 9L, 21L,
>> >> >> >> 10L, 22L, 11L, 23L), .Label = c("2006-02", "2006-03", "2006-04",
>> >> >> >> "2006-05", "2006-06", "2006-07", "2006-08", "2006-09", "2006-10",
>> >> >> >> "2006-11", "2006-12", "2007-01", "2007-02", "2007-03", "2007-04",
>> >> >> >> "2007-05", "2007-06", "2007-07", "2007-08", "2007-09", "2007-10",
>> >> >> >> "2007-11", "2007-12", "2008-01"), class = "factor"), Month =
>> >> >> >> c(1L,
>> >> >> >> 1L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 5L, 5L, 6L, 6L, 7L, 7L, 8L, 8L, 9L, 9L,
>> >> >> >> 10L, 10L, 11L, 11L, 12L, 12L)), .Names = c("Yearmonth", "Month"
>> >> >> >> ), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, 23L))
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> #thanks Stephen
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> --
>> >> >> >> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that
>> >> >> >> are
>> >> >> >> so
>> >> >> >> little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up
>> >> >> >> and
>> >> >> >> make us
>> >> >> >> feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
>> >> >> >> annoying
>> >> >> >> little
>> >> >> >> problems of being mammals.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> -K. Mullis
>> >> >> >>
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>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
>> >> > so
>> >> > little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
>> >> > make
>> >> > us
>> >> > feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying
>> >> > little
>> >> > problems of being mammals.
>> >> >
>> >> > -K. Mullis
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so
>> > little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make
>> > us
>> > feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying
>> > little
>> > problems of being mammals.
>> >
>> > -K. Mullis
>
>
>
> --
> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so
> little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us
> feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little
> problems of being mammals.
>
> -K. Mullis