Dear useRs, a new version of the zoo package for totally ordered observations is available from CRAN. It contains many new features, the most important of which are: support of regular time series, an improved merge method and functions for carrying out rolling analyses of time series. A more detailed list of changes and new features is given below. All features (both old and new) are also documented in the package vignette. Best wishes, Z Changes in Version 0.9-9 o regular "zoo" series: objects of class "zooreg" (inheriting from "zoo") can be used to store strictly regular series (similar to "ts" objects) or series with an underlying regularity (as before but with observations omitted). They have a frequency attribute that can be used for conversion between "zoo" and "ts". The function is.regular() can be used for checking the regularity of a series. o improved merge() method: merge.zoo now accepts non-zoo arguments (other than first) if all non-zoo args have the same NROW value as the first argument (or are scalar). In that case the non-zoo args are given the index of the first series. Scalars are added for the full index of the merged series. o merge() zoo can now optionally return a "data.frame" that contains the numeric columns as "zoo" series and the "zoo" objects created from factors converted back to "factor". o [.zoo allows now indexing using observations from the index scale (and not only observation numbers). o rapply, rollmean, rollmax, rollmedian to perform rolling analyses o extended functionality to plot.zoo type argument o when plot.zoo used with one series list(...) can be omitted from various plotting parameter arguments o print.zoo documentation fix for R 2.1.0 o yearmon and yearqtr datetime classes o head.ts, tail.ts o c.zoo, range.zoo o coredata.default, coredata.ts _______________________________________________ R-packages mailing list R-packages at stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages