I have a stock price dataset a snippet of which is: > plcm60[1:15, c(1,3,4,5,6,7)] DATE BIDLO ASKHI PRC VOL RET 1 1/2/03 9.450 9.79 9.700 1531819 0.018907 2 1/3/03 9.670 9.94 9.940 1582192 0.024742 3 1/6/03 9.830 10.05 9.960 1843298 0.002012 4 1/7/03 9.835 10.38 10.350 1412441 0.039157 5 1/8/03 10.220 10.67 10.260 961400 -0.008696 6 1/9/03 10.280 11.05 11.020 1742989 0.074074 7 1/10/03 10.900 11.29 11.100 701203 0.007260 8 1/13/03 11.150 11.44 11.350 959718 0.022523 9 1/14/03 11.130 11.40 11.230 994991 -0.010573 10 1/15/03 11.110 11.73 11.410 1678751 0.016029 11 1/16/03 10.850 11.40 11.079 887901 -0.029010 12 1/17/03 10.560 10.91 10.710 968015 -0.033306 13 1/21/03 10.430 10.76 10.680 747969 -0.002801 14 1/22/03 10.510 10.82 10.560 2702355 -0.011236 15 1/23/03 10.700 11.95 11.910 2262855 0.127841
Since the market is closed saturdays, sundays and holidays, the dataset has gaps. I need to insert rows (with dates but all other columns blank) so that the date column in the dataset will have all dates on the calendar? Is there a simple solution using only strptime, and for loops? Jagdish -- Jagdish Gangolly (gango...@gmail.com) _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac