[R] Gaps on merging xts objects

[Joshua Ulrich]

Eric,

I'd be happy to help.  Please follow the posting guide (specifically
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On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 3:19 PM, eric <ericstrom at aol.com> wrote:
> An update ...
>
> I did a bit more search on the internet and got some ideas
>
> i set the start month for the series to the same date.  That didn't help.
> Then I tried
>
> .index(x2)==.index(msci.m)
> FALSE
>
> i was able to fix the problem with :
> index(x2) <- as.Date(index(x2))
> index(msci.m) <- as.Date(index(msci.m))
>
> Now the xts objects merged just fine. But I'm not exactly sure what the root
> cause was or why this fix worked
>
> One other part of this is the x2 data started as weekly and the msci data
> started as daily. Both were converted to monthly data with to.monthly. I
> suspect that has something to do with it but I don't understand.
>
> Any words of wisdom in gaining a better understanding would be appreciated
>
>
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