[R] Creating xts objects from csv file

[Bert Gunter]

Might this be related to the stringsAsfactors change? -- the new default is
FALSE, the old was TRUE.

Bert Gunter

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On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 2:37 PM Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas using sapo.pt> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I cannot reproduce the error, your code runs as expected. Try as.POSIXct?
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rui Barradas
>
> Às 21:32 de 20/07/2020, Jeff Reichman escreveu:
> > R-Help Forum
> >
> >
> >
> > Starting to work with xts objects but can't figure out what I'm doing
> wrong
> > when converting *.csv file with a dtg variable to a *.xts object. When
> I'm
> > converting to an appropriate time object all I get are NA, so that's my
> > first issue.
> >
> >
> >
> > dtg <- c("1/5/2010 2:30", "1/5/2010 10:32", "1/5/2010 12:03")
> >
> > seq <- c(1,2,3)
> >
> >
> >
> > dat <- data.frame(dtg, seq)
> >
> >
> >
> > dat$dtg <- as.POSIXlt(dat$dtg, format = "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M")
> >
> >
> >
> > dat.xts <- xts(x = dat[,-1], order.by = dat[,1])
> >
> >
> >
> > head(dat.xts)
> >
> >
> >
> > Sincerely
> >
> >
> >
> > Jeff Reichman
> >
> >
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