[R-SIG-Finance] Irregularly Spaced Time Series

[Brian G. Peterson]

On Saturday 10 March 2007 14:02, Rich Ghazarian wrote:
> Brian,
>
> Thank you for your input.
>
> Here is what I get and I don't understand why?   Thank you for your
> help
>
> > Z <- read.zoo(na.exclude("pp.csv", sep = ",", format = "%d %b %Y"))
>
>      V1
> 1    01/12-03,0.1
> 2    01/13-03,0.5
> 3    01/14-03,0.3
> 4    01/15-03,0.1
> 5    01/19-03,0.284
> 6    01/20-03,0.288

You haven't told us what the format of your CSV file is, but I suspect 
that your problem is with your format string.  You need to tell zoo how 
to interpret the date column from your source CSV.  Details in the zoo 
documentation.

Regards,

  - Brian

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