I am still having a problem with my coercing my data frame (tkr) into a time series using ts  to use the stl function.
   
  When I read the data into R and do dim tkr the result is 132 1, when I type class I get (data.frame).
   
  I have tried several methods so far to to coerce it into a a time series and use the stl function,( see thread) .
   
  A suggestion was to  use the following:
   
  tstkr <- ts(as.numeric(tkr), deltat=1/12)
   
  before using the stl function, however I now get this error message:
   
  Error in as.double.default(tkr) : (list) object cannot be coerced to 'double'
   
  I don't know what this means....does anybody have any other ideas...? Hope I have put enough information on here for people to be able to help..if not let me know, also if anyone wants to send me to email them my data then I am happy to do so..
   
  Thanks to everyone who has tried to help so far much appreciated...

Spencer Graves <spencer.graves@pdf.com> wrote:
  The 'ts' function retains the 'dim' attribute of 'tkr'. When 'stl' 
finds this 'dim' attribute, it thinks 'tstkr' is a multivariate time 
series. This causes it to stop with the error, "only univariate series 
allowed".

Consider the following modification of an example from the 'stl' help 
file:

> not.1 <- stl(nottem, "per")
> Nottem <- ts(array(nottem, dim=c(240, 1)))
> Not.1 <- stl(Nottem)
Error in stl(Nottem) : only univariate series are allowed

Solution:

tstkr <- ts(as.numeric(tkr), deltat=1/12)

After converting tkr and tstkr from a matrix to a vector like this, 
please try 'stl(tstkr)'. If it doesn't work, please submit another post.

Hope this helps.
Spencer Graves
p.s. Your example was not quite self-contained, because I didn't know 
for sure the format, class, and attributes of your 'tkr' object. The 
absence of these details made it harder for me (and, I believe, anyone 
else) to reply. You might get better replies quicker with greater 
attention to such details.

Daniel sutcliffe wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am still having problems with using the stl 
function, when I read the csv file into R into a
file called tkr and use dim(tkr) the result is 132 x 1
which is fine.
> 
> When coerce it into a trime series using ts either:
> 
> 
> tstkr <- ts(t(tkr), deltat=1/12) or
> 
> tstkr <- ts(c(tkr), deltat=1/12) 
> 
> and use the stl function I get the following error:
> 
> Error in stl(tstkr) : only univariate series are allowed
> 
> id just use the tkr file I get the same error..does anyibe have an idea what to do next, here is my data...it's not sensitive so if anyone wants to try then you are very welcome!
> Rate 184.0222 180.517 222.5792 173.5066 192.7852 198.0429 182.2696 189.28 178.7644 206.8059 236.6 155.9807 231.7314 249.2868 222.9537 198.3761 201.8872 208.9094 242.2646 221.1982 228.2203 245.7757 244.0202 194.865 239.3664 234.0862 251.6867 235.8463 197.1253 237.6063 267.5271 228.8061 241.1264 249.9267 256.9669 188.325 258.8788 239.5069 214.8518 234.2237 211.3296 234.2237 237.7458 156.7361 239.5069 225.4183 257.1177 170.8248 230.1611 265.3001 296.9253 193.265 233.675 240.7028 249.4876 205.5637 237.1889 237.1889 289.8975 245.9736 283.1755 316.3875 372.3234 234.2316 263.9476 314.6395 286.6715 272.6875 323.3795 295.4115 300.6555 174.7997 227.184 277.4767 317.364 234.121 286.1478 279.2109 280.9452 235.8552 319.0982 
> 296.5532 303.4901 173.4229 302.6072 312.8651 389.7991 223.9635 254.7371 329.9615 288.93 317.994 312.8651 381.2509 333.3808 194.8996 285.5743 304.0526 335.9698 307.4123 346.0489 288.934 335.9698 243.5781 384.6854 359.4876 357.8078 221.74 336.3712 344.6562 389.3952 286.6611 338.0282 407.6222 356.2552 241.9221 347.9702 400.9942 381.1102 304.8882 383.9077 418.5089 476.1774 331.1822 378.9647 375.6694 339.4206 364.1357 420.1565 446.5193 410.2705 296.5811
> 
> Cheers and thanks to everyone who offered suggestions before.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> SAULEAU Erik-André wrote:
> Perhaps ts(t(tkr))?
> 
>> -----Message d'origine-----
>> De : Daniel sutcliffe [mailto:dnlsutcliffe@yahoo.co.uk] 
>> Envoyé : mercredi 12 juillet 2006 15:53
>> À : r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Objet : [R] ts and stl functions
>>
>>
>> Hi, 
>>
>> I have imported a csv file into R which contains one column 
>> (the rate er 100,000 population of a disease, by month over 
>> 11 years) I coerced into a time series using the following function, 
>>
>> tstkr<-ts(tkr,deltat=1/12) 
>>
>> This seems to work fine, and when I check for the class of 
>> the object using class(tstkr) I get "ts" as the response. 
>>
>> When I try to use the stl function in stats I get the error message: 
>>
>> Error in stl(tstkr)only univariate series are allowed 
>>
>> I then tried this: 
>>
>> tstkr <- ts(c(tkr), deltat=1/12) 
>>
>> however this made no difference...I still get an error - does 
>> anybody know what is wrong? 
>>
>> Regards, 
>>
>> Daniel 
>>
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