Wow, that was exactly what I needed (and amazingly quick). Thanks for the help Joshua, that worked perfectly. As an aside, it appears that RODBC does keep the object classes (the date field came through as a date, not string...) -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/as-xts-tp3028280p4646521.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.