[R-SIG-Finance] write.csv conversion problem

[Joshua Ulrich]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 4:43 AM, Peter Neumaier
<peter.neumaier at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am writing a matrix (typeof = double) into a CSV file with write.csv.
>
> My first column of the matrix is a date in the form yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss:
>
>> a_fetchdata[1,0]
>
> 2016-02-09 07:30:00
>> typeof(a_fetchdata[1,0])
> [1] "double"
>
Your a_fetchdatra object isn't a matrix.  It looks like it's either an
xts or a zoo object.  I'm not sure how you concluded that the first
column is a date-time, based on the result of extracting the 0-th
column.

>
> My CSV file contains a sequence of integers (from 1 to x) instead of the
> expected date.
>
> How can I prevent that conversion to happen when writing into CSV?
>
Use write.zoo.

> Thanks
> Peter
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