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Gabor, Thanks much. Your solution is elegant. My overall scheme is to take present date, and check whether it is a weekend, if not, then create a string based on the date, to concatenate into a url link for download.file( ). The files I need to download have a part which is in the format: mmddyy. I am working to make myself a system to connect to exchanges, and download end of day files from

date <- as.POSIXlt(Sys.time()) #present date for (i in 1:difftime(as.POSIXlt(Sys.Date()),"2007-10-01")) if (date$wday != 0 & date$wday != 6) {print(date);assign("date", (date-86400))} else (assign("date", (date-86400))) I am trying to print dates from present day to a day in the past, but omitting weekends. I am not doing something right, but can't

I have a dataframe say: date price_g price_s 0.34 0.56 0.36 0.76 . . . . . . and so on. say, 1000 rows. Is it possible to add two columns to this dataframe, by computing say diff(log(price_g) and diff(log(price_s)) ? The elements in the first row of these columns cannot be computed, but

For the r script below >datestr <- "01/01/2004" >as.POSIXct(as.Date(datestr, "%d/%m/%Y")) I get the following output "2003-12-31 18:00:00 Central Standard Time" Why is the date a day before. I guess its something to do with the time, but is there a way to get it to return 2004-01-01 instead? Thanks in advance... -Sandeep [[alternative HTML version

Can someone throw light on the following problem I am having with RODBC? There's an Excel file I am trying to read from, it has one sheet named 'nameclass'. Thanks in anticipation. Vishal Belsare > library(RODBC) > con = odbcConnectExcel(file.choose()) > tbls <- sqlTables(con) > tbls TABLE_CAT TABLE_SCHEM TABLE_NAME TABLE_TYPE REMARKS 1

Is there any existing implementation in R/S of : 1] Pincus & Kalman's approximate entropy (ApEn) measure 2] Total Correlation / Multiinformation 3] Information Interaction A search doesn't quite reveal anything, but I'd be keen to not reinvent in case someone has worked on it. Many thanks in anticipation. Best, Vishal Belsare

I have an ordered series of 3 month t-bill rates (annual). I transform this to a daily series, however, the observations are constructed only from the dates on which the t-bills were issued, which is every week. So now I have ordered observations of the daily 'risk-free rate' for one day every week. I want to expand this zoo object to give a value for every day, and to do so, copy the

I am interested in creating multiple (say 1000) time series, from a given stochastic process, of length 250. I want to refer to each realization with its own variable name, of the format say, tsn, where n is the n'th simulation. i.e. ts1, ts2, ts3, ts4, .... , ts1000 The way I am thinking of doing this is placing the following code within another loop, and the 'tsn' assignment should

I have financial data on a a set of firms, with a quarterly period (fundamental data). The data spans 10 years, and four quarters per year. The present file (.csv) reads the Date columns as "200706" for the second quarter of 2007; "199809" for the third quarter of 1997. Is there a way I can convert it to something like "2007 Q2", "1998 Q3"? I am aware of

Hello I am new to R and I need to convert some dates (numeric format by matlab) to actual dates in R. For instance, Matlab -> 730456 -> >> datestr(730456) ans = 02-Dec-1999 R - > library(zoo) > as.Date(730456) [1] "3969-12-03" I don't not mind the output format but it needs to be right. Many thanks Ed

Wanted to raise two questions: 1. Is bugs.r-project.org down? I haven't been able to reach it for two or three days: ``` ping bugs.r-project.org PING rbugs.research.att.com (207.140.168.137): 56 data bytes Request timeout for icmp_seq 0 Request timeout for icmp_seq 1 Request timeout for icmp_seq 2 Request timeout for icmp_seq 3 Request timeout for icmp_seq 4 Request timeout for icmp_seq 5

Hi all, Is there a simple function already implemented for getting the ISO weeks of a Date object? I couldn't find one, and so wrote my own function to do it, but would appreciate a pointer to the "default" way. If a function is not yet implemented, could the code below be of interest to submit to CRAN? Best Regards, Gustaf --------------------

Dear all, I have a question related to the POSIXlt function in R. I have a set of dates and times, for exmaple: startx <- as.POSIXct("2011-01-01 00:00:00") finx <- as.POSIXct("2011-12-31 00:00:00") daysx<- seq(startx, finx, by="24 hours") I want to change the dates of all the days falling on a Saturday to the next working day (i.e. Monday). So I

Dear all, I have just detected what seems a minor inconsistence with data types. If one unlists a POSIXlt time with GMT zone gets a numeric vector, since the POSIXlt list has no `zone` element, while if one unlists a POSIXlt time with a non GMT zone (also non specifying tz if the Sys.timezone is not GMT) gets a character vector due to including the `zone` element. > x <-

Can someone, please, explain the difference is results below (notice the isdst value) > unlist(as.POSIXlt('2005-7-1')) sec min hour mday mon year wday yday isdst 0 0 0 1 6 105 5 181 1 > unlist(as.POSIXlt(as.Date('2005-7-1'))) sec min hour mday mon year wday yday isdst 0 0 0 1 6 105 5 181 0

The return value of Sys.time() today with a timezone of US/Eastern is unchanged between 4.0.3-patched and devel, but on devel the following test fails all.equal(x, as.POSIXlt(x)) with x = Sys.time() This means that devel does not complete make tests (failure on tests/reg-tests-2.R) It is entirely possible that it is an error on my end, I use export TZ="US/Eastern" but I have been

Full_Name: Petr Simecek Version: 2.5.1, 2.6.1 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (195.113.231.2) Several times I have experienced that a length of a POSIXt vector has not been computed right. Example: tv<-structure(list(sec = c(50, 0, 55, 12, 2, 0, 37, NA, 17, 3, 31 ), min = c(1L, 10L, 11L, 15L, 16L, 18L, 18L, NA, 20L, 22L, 22L ), hour = c(12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, NA, 12L,

I use POSIXct for datetimes. Is thee a timeAlign function that I can use where : align by year direction -1 ==> start of this year direction 1 ==> start of next year align by week direction -1 ==> date on last sunday direction 1 ==> date on next sunday align by day direction -1 ==> time at past midnight direction 1 ==> time at this comming

Hi, Is it possible to create a ts() object, whose data is daily based BUT measured only on working days? In other words, suppose I have a data set with 255 observations, measured from 29 June 1959 to 30 June 1960. How would I create such a data? I tried something like: ts(c(...), start(1959, 180)) but I'm not sure what to use for frequency. In other words I don't know how to

Hi WizaRds, What is the "standard" way to get the day of the week from a date such as as.Date("2006-12-01")? It looks like fCalendar has some functions but this requires a change in the R locale to GMT. Is there another way? Thanks! Jack. --------------------------------- Be a PS3 game guru. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]