guess you're right....I need to look at more recent code examples....thx!

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Dennis Murphy <djmuser@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't recall exactly (ca 2004?) when the base R package structure
> was reorganized, but some time ago a number of packages were merged
> into a much smaller subset. Several of these were merged into the
> stats package, including (but not exclusive to) ts, mva, nls and
> ctest. Code using such packages is pretty ancient. The OP should try
> removing (or commenting out) the library(ts) line and proceed with the
> rest of the script. With code that old, one should expect breakdowns
> to occur in other places.
>
> Dennis
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:42 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Jul 22, 2011, at 5:03 PM, cplusplus programmer wrote:
> >
> >> hi,
> >> When I type library(ts) (I am working on an ubuntu machine), I get the
> >> following error:
> >>
> >>> library(ts)
> >>
> >> Error in library(ts) : there is no package called 'ts'
> >
> > You would have needed to have earlier installed that package before
> trying
> > to load it.
> >
> >>
> >> I did a few google searches and it seems like ts is no longer
> >> available....is that correct?
> >> It seemed to me that I would need to download Rmetrics instead....is
> that
> >> the replacement for ts.
> >
> > To do ... what?
> >
> >>
> >> Please let me know how I can get access to the ts libraries....
> >
> > This is a bit of a puzzle for me. I cannot find evidence that there ever
> was
> > a "ts" package. (.... of course this does not sound like a question for
> > Google but rather one for the packages pages of CRAN or r-forge.)
> >
> >  I looked in the archived and orphaned packages
> >
> > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/
> >
> >  ... none named "ts" A ts-class, perjaps? That is in the core packages.
> >
> > Looking in r-forge:
> >
> >
> https://r-forge.r-project.org/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=time+series&Search=Search
> >
> > None named "ts" ... FinTS, yes. "xts", yes
> >
> >  Looking at the Time Series Task view...
> >
> > http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/TimeSeries.html
> >
> > ... no "ts" package. Many other packages however.
> >
> > --
> > David.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> thanks!
> >>
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> >
> > David Winsemius, MD
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