R help - Jul 2009 - getting a timeseries element into a string

I have a timeseries object, ts, and want to get the first date in the series
into a string so I can concatenate it with a SQL query. Input and output are
shown below.  I must be missing something very basic, but I can't seem to
pry the data ("2008-07-01") into a string variable.  Any suggestions
would
be appreciated.

Thank you,

Andrew

=====script:
class(ts)
(ts[1,0])  #returns first date in return series
ttt<-(sprintf("%s",ts[1,0]))
print(ttt)

=====output:

> class(ts)
[1] "timeSeries"
attr(,"package")
[1] "timeSeries"
> (ts[1,0])  #returns first date in return series
GMT

2008-07-01
> ttt<-(sprintf("%s",ts[1,0]))
> print(ttt)
character(0)



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I added a reproducible example to my question...

ts<-dummyDailySeries(x = rnorm(365), units = NULL, zone = "",
FinCenter "")
> (ts[1,0])  #returns first date in return series
GMT

1970-01-01
> ttt<-(sprintf("%s",ts[1,0]))
> print(ttt)
character(0)
> ttt<-(ts[1,0])
> print(ttt)
GMT

1970-01-01

what I want to get is a string containing "1970-01-01"

Thank you.







tradenet wrote:
> 
> I have a timeseries object, ts, and want to get the first date in the
> series into a string so I can concatenate it with a SQL query. Input and
> output are shown below.  I must be missing something very basic, but I
> can't seem to pry the data ("2008-07-01") into a string
variable.  Any
> suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Andrew
> 
> =====script:
> class(ts)
> (ts[1,0])  #returns first date in return series
> ttt<-(sprintf("%s",ts[1,0]))
> print(ttt)
> 
> =====output:
> 
> 
>> class(ts)
> [1] "timeSeries"
> attr(,"package")
> [1] "timeSeries"
> 
>> (ts[1,0])  #returns first date in return series
> GMT
> 
> 2008-07-01
> 
>> ttt<-(sprintf("%s",ts[1,0]))
> 
>> print(ttt)
> character(0)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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