On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 8:09 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Oct 10, 2010, at 5:27 AM, vanilla fantasy wrote: > >> Just trying to be clearer on the problem faced, the dates in the 1st >> colume become 1,2,3,4 in excel as below, the screenshot of how data appears >> in excel is attached. > > I can affirm that there was at one time a jpg since you copied me an my mail > client is much less suspicious about attachments than is the mainly lis > server. Nobody else got a copy, though. > >> >> Open High Low Close Volume >> 1 18937.45 19187.61 18937.45 19002.86 0 >> 2 19003.51 19003.51 18221.82 18542.55 0 >> 3 18574.01 18582.74 18168.27 18168.27 0 >> 4 18194.05 18285.73 18068.10 18193.41 0 >> 5 18246.10 18887.56 18246.10 18850.92 0 > > THat was really not a data.frame in R, but rahter an xts object and when > write.table coverted it to a data.frame the dates (which were an attribute > got stripped off.: >
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