Hi, I am getting unexpected behaviour from aggregate.ts(). The 'ndeltat' argument is effectively being reduced by 1 in some cases, even when it is an integer, with the result that the blocks to be aggregated are not of the expected size, and also that the end() of the aggregated series is much later than the end() of the original series.
rawts <- ts(rep(1:10, each = 5), start = 1) ## ndeltat = 5, but splits into blocks of 4 rather than 5: agts <- aggregate(rawts, ndeltat = 5, FUN = function(x) {str(x);mean(x)}) int [1:4] 1 1 1 1 int [1:4] 1 2 2 2 int [1:4] 2 2 3 3 int [1:4] 3 3 3 4 int [1:4] 4 4 4 4 int [1:4] 5 5 5 5 int [1:4] 5 6 6 6 int [1:4] 6 6 7 7 int [1:4] 7 7 7 8 int [1:4] 8 8 8 8 int [1:4] 9 9 9 9 int [1:4] 9 10 10 10 ## Adding a small amount onto ndeltat bumps it up to blocks of 5: agts2 <- aggregate(rawts, ndeltat = 5 + getOption("ts.eps") / 2, FUN = function(x) {str(x);mean(x)}) int [1:5] 1 1 1 1 1 int [1:5] 2 2 2 2 2 int [1:5] 3 3 3 3 3 int [1:5] 4 4 4 4 4 int [1:5] 5 5 5 5 5 int [1:5] 6 6 6 6 6 int [1:5] 7 7 7 7 7 int [1:5] 8 8 8 8 8 int [1:5] 9 9 9 9 9 int [1:5] 10 10 10 10 10 ## Compare start / end / deltat / length for the two series. sapply(list(`ndeltat=5` = agts, `ndeltat=5+` = agts2), function(x) c(start = start(x)[1], end = end(x)[1], deltat = deltat(x), length = length(x))) # ndeltat=5 ndeltat=5+ # start 1 1.000000 # end 56 46.000045 ## `rawts` ends at 50 # deltat 5 5.000005 # length 12 10.000000 sessionInfo() R version 2.11.0 RC (2010-04-18 r51771) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base -- Felix Andrews / 安福立 Postdoctoral Fellow Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management (iCAM) Centre Fenner School of Environment and Society [Bldg 48a] The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia M: +61 410 400 963 T: + 61 2 6125 4670 E: felix.andr...@anu.edu.au CRICOS Provider No. 00120C -- http://www.neurofractal.org/felix/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel