Hi all:

I have a directory of files as in -------------> bunchafiles <-
list.files(path="/data/2.3/2006", pattern="returns",
full.names=T,recursive=T)  .... Each file is a bunch of returns for a
particular date (unique). There are like 252 files or so.

With a custom function myread (below), I define a vector ----- res <-
vector("list",length=length(bunchafiles)) , and read files into it ----
res <- lapply(bunchafiles, myread)

myread <- function (x) {
  y <- read.csv(x, as.is=T, header=T)
  if (nrow(y) > 0) {
    quotedate <-
strsplit(strsplit(x,"/",fixed=T)[[1]][11],".",fixed=T)[[1]][1]
    a <- rep(quotedate, nrow(y))
    y <- zoo(y,a)
  }
  return(y)
}

I now have a list of zoo'd files. Each of them is indexed by a date
which is unique. All fine so far.

Now, I want to combine all of these into one large zoo object. So I say
------  bigzoo <- do.call(rbind, res)

I now get an error .... "rbind(...): indexes overlap"... I am now
wondering how? Because when I do the foll -----  for (i in
1:length(res)) {cat(i," ",unique(index(res[i][[1]])),"\n")}
I see that I have unique indexes for each res.... So why is rbind
behaving thus?
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