On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, John Maindonald wrote: > Although print.ts() formats times pleasantly when it prints > regular multivariate time series (at least for suitable series) > (try e.g. > > xy <- cbind(window(AirPassengers, end =1950), 1:11)
I get an error here, as I should. > > window(xy, end=1949) > xy seqno > Jan 1949 112 1 > ) > I can find no immediate way to extract the pleasantly > formatted date. I am wondering what plans there may be > to modify format() to provide a choice of formats for the times > in ts objects [presumably via as.Date(), rather than by code > such as in print.ts()], or if some other solution is in view. No plans. ts() objects do not in fact contain the times, just a tsp attribute, but it is easy enough to write code to get what you want. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
