On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Shubha Vishwanath Karanth wrote: > 1. The above rbind function for the zoo objects doesn't take care > of the column names while merging. Example: Column 'a' of y1 is appended > with column 'b' of y2. Why is this so?
We do not check the column names at all. This should probably be changed. > How do I get rid of this? Sort the columns by hand before calling rbind(). > 2. In the rbind function, I have given y2 first and then y1. But in > the appended data, I see the data corresponding to y1 first and then of > y2. Is this because of ordering of the index elements of the zoo > objects? Yes, recall that the second "o" in "zoo" means "ordered". Best, Z ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.