On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:00 PM, skan <juanp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I've just seen that sep sep cannot be "," because there are not commas in >> the file. >> but I want it to take the first and second columns (date and time) as a >> whole, the index. >> > > In the latest version of zoo index.column= can be a list. > index.column = list(1:2), which can be abbreviated to just > index.column = 1:2, would pass the first two columns to FUN as a > single argument consisting of a two column matrix whereas index.column
That should read a two column data.frame. > = list(1, 2) would pass them as separate arguments. Using the latter: > > Lines <- "date time value > 1999-11-11 10:20:00 1.2222" > > library(zoo) > library(chron) > > # z <- read.zoo("myfile.dat", index = list(1, 2), header = TRUE, > > z <- read.zoo(textConnection(Lines), index = list(1, 2), header = TRUE, > FUN = function(date, time) as.chron(paste(date, time))) > ______________________________________________ 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.