[R] Pointwise division of two zoo objects?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Adam Gustafson <amg81 at uw.edu> wrote:
> Just trying to create returns from prices, and do something like:
>
> returns.z = tail(prices.z,-1)/head(prices.z,-1) - 1  # should be equivalent
> to returns = exp(diff(log(prices.z))) - 1
>
> Curiously, I get a zoo object back with zeros everywhere and also with the
> index having one fewer element than it should.
>
> Does anyone know how to pointwise divide zoo objects, and what exactly "/"
> is doing?
>

Try this:

     diff(x, arithmetic = FALSE) - 1

and see ?diff.zoo




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