Hi R,

 

y1 <- zoo(matrix(1:10, ncol = 2), 1:5)

colnames(y1)=c("a","b")

y2 <- zoo(matrix(rnorm(10), ncol = 2), 6:10)

colnames(y2)=c("b","a")

 

> y1

  a  b

1 1  6

2 2  7

3 3  8

4 4  9

5 5 10

 

> y2

            b          a

6   0.9070204  0.3527630

7   1.2405943  0.8275001

8  -0.1690653 -0.1724976

9  -0.6905223 -1.1127670

10  0.3776210  0.4208908

 

Now, I have to append these two zoo objects, y1 and y2. So, I do as
follows:

 

> rbind(y2,y1)

            b          a

1   1.0000000  6.0000000

2   2.0000000  7.0000000

3   3.0000000  8.0000000

4   4.0000000  9.0000000

5   5.0000000 10.0000000

6   0.9070204  0.3527630

7   1.2405943  0.8275001

8  -0.1690653 -0.1724976

9  -0.6905223 -1.1127670

10  0.3776210  0.4208908

> 

 

The doubts I get are as follows:

1.	The above rbind function for the zoo objects doesn't take care
of the column names while merging. Example: Column 'a' of y1 is appended
with column 'b' of y2. Why is this so? How do I get rid of this?
2.	In the rbind function, I have given y2 first and then y1. But in
the appended data, I see the data corresponding to y1 first and then of
y2. Is this because of ordering of the index elements of the zoo
objects?

 

Or, is there any other better function to append zoo objects?

 

Thanks in advance,

Shubha 


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