[R-SIG-Finance] (no subject)

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 5 December 2008 at 15:23, jeff.a.ryan at gmail.com wrote:
| Try:
| 
| xts(data[,-1],as.Date(data[,1]))

Probably rather

	 xts(data[,-1], as.Date( as.character(data[,1]) ))

because Soeren used defaults when reading the data

| On Dec 5, 2008 7:50am, sprohl at na.uni-tuebingen.de wrote:
| > Hello Brian,
| >
| > please find attached sample of the data
| > 'data.frame': 1503 obs. of 2 variables:
| >
| > $ X2002.07.01: Factor w/ 1503 levels "2002-07-02","2002-07-03",..: 1 2 3
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

and got factors rather than character strings.

Dirk

PS I'd prefer it if we concentrated on Finance on this list rather 
than acting as a smaller substitute for r-help. Just saying...

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