[R-SIG-Finance] positions in timeSeries object

[spencerg]

      First you need to examine the results of each step to isolate the 
problem. 


      When I tried to replicate your problem, I first replaced 
"as.data.frame(scan(...))" with the following: 


DF <- read.table('ibm1.txt', header=TRUE, sep='|')


      I also replaced "df" by "DF", because "df" is the function for the 
density of an F distribution, and I'd prefer not to mask that with a 
data.frame. 


      After that, I solved the problem by studying the examples in the 
help file for "timeDate". 


      To get there, however, I found that there were two functions 
called "timeDate", in packages "timeDate" and "fCalendar".  I found this 
as follows: 


library(RSiteSearch)
tD <- RSiteSearch.function('timeDate')
sum(tD$Function=='timeDate')
HTML(tD[tD$Function=='timeDate', ])


     These two functions are probably identical, but I don't know that. 
     
      Hope this helps. 
      Spencer Graves

Sarkar, Arup wrote:
> Hi: I am trying the following code to incorporate positions in the time
> series object. Can some please help me.
>
>  
>
> Data File Format:
>
>  
>
> SYMBOL|DATE|EX|TIME|PRICE|SIZE|COND|CORR|G127
>
> IBM|11/03/2008|N|9:30:07|93.0800|73600|@|0|0
>
> IBM|11/03/2008|N|9:30:07|92.9700|500|@|0|0
>
> IBM|11/03/2008|N|9:30:07|93.1100|100|@|0|0
>
> IBM|11/03/2008|N|9:30:07|92.9700|100|@|0|0
>
> IBM|11/03/2008|N|9:30:07|92.8500|200|@|0|0
>
> IBM|11/03/2008|N|9:30:07|92.8200|100|@|0|0
>
> IBM|11/03/2008|N|9:30:08|92.7500|100|@|0|0
>
> IBM|11/03/2008|N|9:30:08|92.7500|100|@|0|0
>
> IBM|11/03/2008|N|9:30:08|92.7500|100|@|0|0
>
> IBM|11/03/2008|N|9:30:08|92.7500|100|@|0|0
>
> IBM|11/03/2008|N|9:30:08|92.7500|100|@|0|0
>
> IBM|11/03/2008|N|9:30:08|93.0000|100|@|0|0
>
>  
>
> R script:
>
>  
>
> ## Columns Names
>
> fields.list =
> list(Symbol="",Date="",Ex="",Time="",Price=0,Size=0,Cond="",Corr=0,G127=0)
>
> #create a data frame
>
> df =
> as.data.frame(scan(file="c:/ibm_1.txt",what=fields.list,sep="|",skip=1,multi
> .line=TRUE,strip.white=TRUE),stringsAsFactors=F)
>
> dates.tmp = timeDate(charvec = df[, "Date"])
>
> times.tmp = df[, "Time"]
>
> td.tmp = paste(dates.tmp,times.tmp, sep=" ")
>
> ans = timeSeries(data = df[, setdiff(colIds(df), c("Date","Time"))],pos =
> td.tmp)
>
>  
>
> I am getting the following output when I am using the following command
> ans[1:5, ]
>
>  
>
>        Symbol Ex  Price   Size      Cond Corr G127
>
>      1 "IBM"  "N" "93.08" "  73600" "@"  "0"  "0" 
>
>      2 "IBM"  "N" "92.97" "    500" "@"  "0"  "0" 
>
>      3 "IBM"  "N" "93.11" "    100" "@"  "0"  "0" 
>
>      4 "IBM"  "N" "92.97" "    100" "@"  "0"  "0" 
>
>      5 "IBM"  "N" "92.85" "    200" "@"  "0"  "0"
>
>  
>
> I want to have the following output, how can I achieve it. Any help is
> highly appreciated.
>
>  
>
>      Positions  Symbol Ex  Price   Size      Cond Corr G127
>
>       "11/03/2008 9:30:07" "IBM"  "N" "93.08" "  73600" "@"  "0"  "0" 
>
>      "11/03/2008 9:30:07" "IBM"  "N" "92.97" "    500" "@"  "0"  "0" 
>
>      "11/03/2008 9:30:07" "IBM"  "N" "93.11" "    100" "@"  "0"  "0" 
>
>      "11/03/2008 9:30:07" "IBM"  "N" "92.97" "    100" "@"  "0"  "0" 
>
>      "11/03/2008 9:30:07" "IBM"  "N" "92.85" "    200" "@"  "0"  "0"
>
>  
>
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