[R] recursively Merging a list a zoo objects

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:13 PM, steven mosher <moshersteven at gmail.com> wrote:
> The zoo package as a merge function which merges a set of zoo objects
> result<-merge(zoo1,zoo2,...)
>
> Assume your zoo objects are already collected in a list
>
> # make a phony list to illustrate the situation. ( hat tip to david W for
> constructing a list in a loop)
>
> ddat <- as.list(rep("", 20))
>  ytd<-seq(3,14)
>  for(i in 1:20) {
> + ddat[[i]] <- zoo(data,ytd )
> + }
>
>

merge.zoo can handle multiple zoo objects (not just two) so:

   do.call("merge", ddat)

This also works but is a bit tedious:

merge(ddat[[1]], ddat[[2]], ddat[[3]], ddat[[4]], ddat[[5]],
   ddat[[6]], ddat[[7]], ddat[[8]], ddat[[9]], ddat[[10]],
   ddat[[11]], ddat[[12]], ddat[[13]], ddat[[14]], ddat[[15]],
   ddat[[16]], ddat[[17]], ddat[[18]], ddat[[19]], ddat[[20]])

Also note that there is an example of using do.call with merge.zoo in
the examples section of ?merge.zoo