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2012 Apr 11
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What is a better way to deal with lag/difference and loops in time series using R?
...nd' value not changed> PI4w Qtr1 Qtr2 Qtr3 Qtr4 1983 -1.1900612 -0.5530318 0.6868747 0.9539110 Similar problems happen with the usage of the function "diff", which calculate the difference. I wonder if it is better to work with the dates (1983Q1, 1983Q2,.....) directly? If I want to write a loop, say, to conduct some computation from 1983Q1 to 2011Q4, the only way I know is to convert the dates to the ordinal indices, 1, 2, 3...... Can we work with the dates? Is there any built-in equality that provides the computation like 1983Q1 +1 equa...