R help - Mar 2016 - ts or xts with high-frequency data within a year

Ryan,
>From "decompose()" source code, two conditions can trigger the
error message:
   "time series has no or less than 2 periods"

based on the frequency value, specifically:

  1. f <= 1
  2. length(na.omit(x)) < 2 * f

It appears to me that your reproducible code has got a typo error, it should be:

  Z=ts(X[,3],frequency=24*365)

I mean X[,3] in place of X[,2].


Further, frequency=24*365, 2*frequency > 6000 = length(X[,3]), and that
triggers the second condition.
>From R console:
> decompose
function (x, type = c("additive", "multiplicative"), filter
= NULL)
{
    type <- match.arg(type)
    l <- length(x)
    f <- frequency(x)
    if (f <= 1 || length(na.omit(x)) < 2 * f)
        stop("time series has no or less than 2 periods")


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Best,

GG



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