Try this: x <- xts(as.character(1:10), Sys.Date() + 0:9) storage.mode(x) <- "double"
Michael On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Noah Silverman <noahsilver...@ucla.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a rather large data frame (500 x 5000) that I want to convert to a > proper xts object. > > I am able to properly generate an xts object with the correct time index. > However, all of my numerical values are now strings. > > b <- as.xts(a[,2:dim(a)[2]], order.by=as.POSIXct(strptime(paste(a$Date), > '%m/%d/%Y'))) > > My guess is that somewhere in the large data frame there are a few strings > hiding that is causing the who thong to be converted to string. > > Is there some way to force the as.xts function to ignore the strings and keep > everything numeric? > > > Thanks! > > > -- > Noah Silverman > UCLA Department of Statistics > 8208 Math Sciences Building > Los Angeles, CA 90095 > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
