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2007 Sep 14
2
Date vs date
...#39;d like to talk you all into a change, of course). 1. Since date uses 1/1/1960 as the base, and so does SAS, those of us who contantly pass files back and forth between those two packages have a slightly easier time. 2. as.date(10) works, as.Date(10) does not. Sometimes I have done a manipluation that the date package does not understand, and I know that the result is still of the right type, but the package does not. However, this is fairly rare and I can work around it. (It mostly occurs in processing the rate tables for expected survival). 3. temp <- as.Date('1990/1/1'...
2006 Dec 10
1
using zoo for daily stock prices
Hi all, Please forgive this newbie posting to the list for the first time if I haven't followed proper procedure. I have read through many of the archives and find them most useful in learning R. I have ten years daily data (stock closing prices) which I read in zoo format. I am having problems coding R to run a count of how many days in each month have a price higher than the first day
2013 Jun 19
3
how to get growth rate of a (time series) data?
Hello all, now I'm trying to switch from Excel to R to deal with the data, and as a newbie i got the problem as follows. suppose I have a data named "test" test<- data.frame(year=c(1996:2011), Y=c(74163.6,81658.5,86531.6,91125.0,98749.0,109028.0,120475.6,136613.4,160956.6,187423.5,222712.5,266599.2,315974.6,348775.1,402816.5,465731.3)) in which Y means the GDP of a country If i