[R] FW: getting time series into r

[David Winsemius]

On May 23, 2011, at 4:31 PM, Ben Bolker wrote:

> Heiman, Thomas J. <theiman <at> mitre.org> writes:
>
>> tmp <- read.table("baltimore.csv", sep = " ") ##This is timeseries 2
>> z <- zoo(tmp[, 2:20], as.Date(as.character(tmp[, 1]), format = ))

In this file you have no separators in the dates so the format would  
be "%Y%m%d". It's also not a csv file .... no commas

>>
>> tmp1 <- read.table("baltimorefludata.csv", sep = " ") ##This is  
>> timeseries 1
>> z2 <- zoo(tmp[,2], as.Date(tmp[, 1]), format = ))

For this one the format would be "%m/%d/%Y". There also appeared to be  
no whitespace after some of the entries, so you might need  
utils::read.fwf()

>>
>
>
>  I think you need format="%m/%d/%Y"
>
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David Winsemius, MD
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