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Folks, I know that I can do the following using a loop. That's been a lot easier for me to write and understand. But I am trying to force myself to use more vectorized / matrixed code so that eventually I will become a better R programmer. I have a dataframe that has some values by Year, Quarter and Ranking. The variable of interest is the return (F3MRet), to be weighted averaged within the

Folks, I do a series of regressions (one for each quarter in the dataset) and then go and extract the residuals from each stored lm object that is returned as follows: vResiduals <- as.vector(unlist(resid(lQuarterlyRegressions[[i]]))); Here lQuarterlyRegressions is a vector of objects returned by lm(). Next, I may go find outliers using identify() on a plot or do some other analysis which

Hi All, I have a very simple question about a time series object: how to access values for a particular year and quarter (say)? Suppose, following http://www.stat.pitt.edu/stoffer/tsa2/R_time_series_quick_fix.htm I have read in data as a time series; here is how it looks. * Qtr1 Qtr2 Qtr3 Qtr4 1960 0.71 0.63 0.85 0.44 1961 0.61 0.69 0.92 0.55 . . . . .

I have financial data on a a set of firms, with a quarterly period (fundamental data). The data spans 10 years, and four quarters per year. The present file (.csv) reads the Date columns as "200706" for the second quarter of 2007; "199809" for the third quarter of 1997. Is there a way I can convert it to something like "2007 Q2", "1998 Q3"? I am aware of

Hello, I have two date strings, say "1972-06-30" and "2012-01-31", and I'd like to get every quarter period end date between those dates? Does anyone know how to do this? Speed is important... Here is a small sample: Two dates: "2007-01-31" "2012-01-31" And I'd like to get this: [1] "2007-03-31" "2007-06-30"

Gentlemen, In the documentation for reshape, in the function signature, the argument "direction" is not listed. However, it is explained in the explanation of parameters below. I am using R 2.2.1. Out of curiosity: Is the R core team still an all-male affair? I don't think I have seen a single lady's name. -- -- Vivek Satsangi Student, Rochester, NY USA

Folks, This is probably a "help me google this properly, please"-type of question. In TIBCO Spotfire, there is a procedure called "line similarity". I use this to determine which observations show a growing, stable or declining pattern... sort of like a mini-regression on the time-line for each observation. So of the input is

# Dear List, # I want to characterize a time series according to its Quarter components. # My data ("a.ts": http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfvvwzr2_478cr9k4cdb)? look like: #???????????????? Qtr1????????? Qtr2????????? Qtr3????????? Qtr4 #?? 1948 -0.0714961837? 0.0101747827? 0.0654816569 -0.0227830729 #?? 1949 -0.1175517556? 0.1151378692? 0.1015777858 -0.1971535900 #?? 1950?

Folks, I was drawn to R, like many others, partly for the opportunity to draw nice, colorful graphs (occasionally ones with meaning, too :-) ). I am still quite a newbie to R. As such, I have been trying to understand the code for the graphics on the home page (the ones from the 2004 contest -- the dendrogram, the cluster plot with different coloured circles, etc.) I was wondering whether anyone

I know that I can use as.yearmon in the package "zoo" to find the year and the month of a date. I can use as. yearqtr to find the year and the quarter. But how can one find just the year of a date? Thanks a lot! -- Dimitri Liakhovitski Ninah Consulting www.ninah.com

Folks, I have the following code, that works fine on smaller data sets. For larger datasets, it runs out of memory and runs way too slow because we are essentially creating large vectors with rep() and then calling median() on it. (I learned this approach from a post on the web). Below that, I have written the corresponding SAS code. The SAS code works fast because I can just tell the proc

Hi everyone,I have a data daily data (x) for 10 years starting from 04-01-1995 to 03-31-2005. I was able to get the yearly sum for the ten years using aggregate(x, years, sum). But this gave me the yearly sum for 1995 (Apr- Dec); 1996 (Jan-Dec) ---------2005 (Jan-Mar). But I want to get the aggregates for Apr-1995 to Mar 1996, Apr 1996- mar 1997 and so on. your help will be higly appreciated.

Hi all, I'm trying to make an integer-backed quarter (as in fraction of year) class, but I can't quite it to work. I want integer-backed so I don't have to worry about floating-point effects when doing math, and so that I can use it as in data.table. First of all, is there a good reference for this anywhere? All of the S4 tutorials that I've found have been too high-level, and

Dear List, I ran into some problems with time-series-Data. Imagine a data-structure where observations (x) of test attendants (i) are made a four times (q) a year (y). The data is orderd the following way: I y q x 1 2006 1 1 1 2006 3 1 1 2006 4 1 1 2007 1 1 1 2007 2 1 1 2007 3 1 1 2007 4 1 2 2006 1 1 3 2007 1 1 3 2007 2 1 I am looking for a way to count the attendants that at least have

Folks, 1. Is there a more appropriate list (r-devel?) for posting such suggestions? I am a newbie to R, and doubtless will have some suggestions for the documentation -- some good, others not quite so. I would actually like to help give back to the community (I was motivated by Prof. Ripley's 2001 talk in which he had commented that open source software users rarely give back anything.) --

Disclaimer/Apology: I am an R newbie I am seeing some behaviour that seems to me to be the result of some cacheing going on at some level, and perhaps this is expected behaviour. I would just like to understand the basic rules. What I have is a file with some data. I read it in and then do a summary on the resulting dataframe. I find the some values are completely outside the expected range,

Hello, This is likely fairly silly question, and I apologize to whomever takes the time to respond. I am a relatively new user of R, on Windows XP, version 2.3.1. Say I have a data table that looks like the following: x Date Location Amount Blue Green 1 01/01/2001 Central 1817 TRUE FALSE 2 01/02/2001 Central 20358 FALSE TRUE 3 05/08/2001 Central 16245 FALSE TRUE 4

I have a zooreg object and I want to be able to generate a value for seasons and 11-day composites paste it onto my zoo data frame, along with year, month and days. Right now I have the following to work from: eg. dat.zoo.mdy <- with(month.day.year(time(dat.zoo)), cbind(dat.zoo, year, month, day, quarter = (month - 1) %/% 3 + 1, dow = as.numeric(format(time(dat.zoo), "%w")))) For

Consider the following scrap of code: > x<- ts(1:50,start=c(1,11),freq=12) > y <- aggregate(x,nfreq=4) > c(y) [1] 6 15 24 33 42 51 60 69 78 87 96 105 114 123 132 141 > y Error in rep.int("", start.pad) : invalid number of copies in rep.int() > tsp(y) [1] 1.833333 5.583333 4.000000 So we can aggregate into quarters, but we cannot print it using

Consider the following scrap of code: > x<- ts(1:50,start=c(1,11),freq=12) > y <- aggregate(x,nfreq=4) > c(y) [1] 6 15 24 33 42 51 60 69 78 87 96 105 114 123 132 141 > y Error in rep.int("", start.pad) : invalid number of copies in rep.int() > tsp(y) [1] 1.833333 5.583333 4.000000 So we can aggregate into quarters, but we cannot print it using