Using the built in AirPassengers data that comes with R this works: > AP12 <- ts(matrix(AirPassengers[], nc = 12, byrow = TRUE), > start(AirPassengers)[1]) > colnames(AP12) <- month.abb > library(zoo) > write.zoo(as.zoo(AP12), sep = ",") "Index","Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec" 1949,112,118,132,129,121,135,148,148,136,119,104,118 1950,115,126,141,135,125,149,170,170,158,133,114,140 1951,145,150,178,163,172,178,199,199,184,162,146,166 1952,171,180,193,181,183,218,230,242,209,191,172,194 1953,196,196,236,235,229,243,264,272,237,211,180,201 1954,204,188,235,227,234,264,302,293,259,229,203,229 1955,242,233,267,269,270,315,364,347,312,274,237,278 1956,284,277,317,313,318,374,413,405,355,306,271,306 1957,315,301,356,348,355,422,465,467,404,347,305,336 1958,340,318,362,348,363,435,491,505,404,359,310,337 1959,360,342,406,396,420,472,548,559,463,407,362,405 1960,417,391,419,461,472,535,622,606,508,461,390,432
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Bunny, lautloscrew.com <bu...@lautloscrew.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > is there a common way to write time series objects generated by ts() to some > .csv or .xls. > write.table does not work by default since it expects a data.frame which a ts > object is not. > Therefore write.table creates a data.frame which basically ignores the rows > and columns of ts objects and just saves one big vector. > What I want to do is export it, the same way as a ts object is printed on > console, like this: > Qtr1 Qtr2 Qtr3 Qtr4 > 1990 1.80926644 1.57801902 -0.06466631 -0.89682263 > 1991 0.38314894 0.58986441 0.61502833 1.55998143 > 1992 1.34689938 -0.61304408 2.17411932 0.13529151 > 1993 -0.07747732 1.76763799 0.37560837 0.36530430 > 1994 -1.03461000 0.88674850 1.71258524 0.79961787 > > I hope email transmission does not blow the formatting :) Thx for any help in > advance > > matt > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.