[R-SIG-Finance] recommended zoo merge for multiple objects

[zubin]

Thx!

One question:  Will cbind use the time index?  I want to make sure 
everything lines up, as i have lags in the data.

Brian G. Peterson wrote:
> zubin wrote:
>> Hello, i have about 20 objects, each object is a zoo object, a ticker 
>> symbol.
>> I am using merge.zoo to merge 2 objects successfully and using return 
>> class to create a data frame.  However it looks like merge.zoo can 
>> only handle 2 objects.  What's the recommended approach to merge 
>> multiple zoo objects by the time index into a data frame?
>>
>> example of 2 objects:
>>
>> df <- merge.zoo(XLF,SPY,all=TRUE, retclass="data.frame")
>> where XLF and SPY are zoo objects.
>>
>>   
> Use cbind with xts.  xts extends zoo, and should be preferred for 
> financial time series.
>
> Regards,
>
>  - Brian
>