[R-SIG-Finance] How do I bin data into 5 min bins and compute the medians in the bins?

[Jeffrey Ryan]

You should lead with what you have tried, it lets everyone have a
better idea of what you are looking for.

That said, the .082225 is perfectly acceptable to xts, though
precision-wise you are near the limit of floating point precision on
many platforms.  The previous post in this thread is on target to what
you want.

Take a good look at ?endpoints and to a lesser extend ?period.apply.

HTH
Jeff

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Michael <comtech.usa at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have also searched "crazily"... and read into both "xts" and "zoo"... but
> couldn't find a solution...
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1. How to handle the ".082225" part in "xts" and "zoo"?
>
> 2. The "xts/zoo" interval arithmatic only handles OHLC of an interval, not
> median of an interval, right?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Jeffrey Ryan <jeffrey.ryan at lemnica.com>wrote:
>
>> Use a time series class.  This has all been solved thousands of times
>> before in private and on the lists.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Michael <comtech.usa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I have data in the following format:
>> >
>> > How do I bucket the data into 5 min bins and then compute the median of
>> > quotes in the bins?
>> >
>> > Currently the "DateTimeStamps" are "factors" in the data frame and I
>> > ordered the rows according to these DateTimeStamps
>> >
>> > Thanks a lot!
>> >
>> > Bid           Offer      DateTimeStamps
>> >
>> > 46.00       46.10     2006-06-16 12:12:00.082225
>> >
>> >        [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>> >
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