The zoo package can handle series with times of any class that
is totally ordered and provides certain methods. That
includes all common time classes and allows for you to define
new time classes too. See
library(zoo)
?zoo
and the three vignettes (i.e. pdf documents) that come with it.
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Oliver Bandel
<oliver at first.in-berlin.de> wrote:> Hello,
>
> what kind of advantages does R's time series offer?
>
> Would it be possible to use data with units?
>
> For example data from a real time series with certain
> sampling rates - could they be used so,
> that the sample-times are measured in millisceonds or
> microseconds, instead of an index of the positions?
>
> If so, this would be much easier to handle than just
> working with indices of a vector.
>
> If the above mentioned way would not be possible, for what
> is this timeseries-attribute (?) useful?
>
>
> Ciao,
> Oliver
>
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