[R] Time problems (POSIXct)

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Yes, its possible but if you have date data Date class would be the
better choice.  See R News 4/1.

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Research <risk2009 at ath.forthnet.gr> wrote:
> Thanks Gabor,
>
> I suppose that in the example below,  you can convet Date to POSIXct as
> well, can't you?
>
> Best,
> Costas
>
>
> On 20/05/2010 18:08, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>>
>> The warning message does tell you exactly what was wrong.   You are
>> trying to merge zoo objects that have two different index classes.
>> The first is "POSIXct" and the second is "Date" class.  Next time
>> please provide your data in reproducible form
>> as shown here:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> library(zoo)
>>> z1<- zoo(1:6, as.Date(c("1950-01-05", "1950-01-06", "1950-01-09",
>>>
>>
>> +   "1950-01-10", "1950-01-11", "1950-01-12")))
>>
>>>
>>> z2<- zoo(c(16.66, 16.85, 16.93, 16.98, 17.08, 17.03),
>>>
>>
>> + as.POSIXct(c("1950-01-03, GMT", "1950-01-04, GMT", "1950-01-05, GMT",
>> +   "1950-01-06, GMT", "1950-01-09 GMT", "1950-01-10 GMT")))
>>
>>>
>>> merge(z1, z2 = aggregate(z2, as.Date, identity))
>>>
>>
>>            z1    z2
>> 1950-01-03 NA 16.66
>> 1950-01-04 NA 16.85
>> 1950-01-05  1 16.93
>> 1950-01-06  2 16.98
>> 1950-01-09  3 17.08
>> 1950-01-10  4 17.03
>> 1950-01-11  5    NA
>> 1950-01-12  6    NA
>>
>>>
>>> # or
>>> z2.Date<- z2
>>> time(z2.Date)<- as.Date(time(z2.Date))
>>>
>>> merge(z1, z2.Date)
>>>
>>
>>            z1 z2.Date
>> 1950-01-03 NA   16.66
>> 1950-01-04 NA   16.85
>> 1950-01-05  1   16.93
>> 1950-01-06  2   16.98
>> 1950-01-09  3   17.08
>> 1950-01-10  4   17.03
>> 1950-01-11  5      NA
>> 1950-01-12  6      NA
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Research<risk2009 at ath.forthnet.gr>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have a zoo time series object (say a)  with the following time
>>> stamp/format
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] "1950-01-03 GMT" "1950-01-04 GMT" "1950-01-05 GMT" "1950-01-06 GMT"
>>> [5] "1950-01-09 GMT" "1950-01-10 GMT"
>>>
>>>
>>> and another (say b) with
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] "1950-01-05" "1950-01-06" "1950-01-09" "1950-01-10" "1950-01-11"
>>> [6] "1950-01-12"
>>>
>>>
>>> I want to merge these series   but when I try:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> head(merge(a, b ))
>>>>
>>>
>>>                    a                   b
>>> 1950-01-03 02:00:00       16.66   NA
>>> 1950-01-04 02:00:00       16.85   NA
>>> 1950-01-05 02:00:00       16.93   NA
>>> 1950-01-06 02:00:00       16.98   NA
>>> 1950-01-09 02:00:00       17.08   NA
>>> 1950-01-10 02:00:00       17.03   NA
>>> Warning message:
>>> In merge.zoo(a, b) :
>>>  Index vectors are of different classes: POSIXt Date
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Anybody can help?  I tried as.POSIXct(a,tz="GMT") but it doesn't seem to
>>> work....
>>>
>>> Many thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> Costas
>>>              _
>>> platform       i386-pc-mingw32
>>> arch           i386
>>> os             mingw32
>>> system         i386, mingw32
>>> status
>>> major          2
>>> minor          10.1
>>> year           2009
>>> month          12
>>> day            14
>>> svn rev        50720
>>> language       R
>>> version.string R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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