Achim Zeileis-4 wrote > > I don't know why you make this so complicated. Either use > > read.zoo("test.txt", header = FALSE, sep = "\t", > format = "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M", tz = "") > > which yields a POSIXct time index. Alternatively, you can produce POSIXlt > via strptime: > > read.zoo("test.txt", header = FALSE, sep = "\t", > FUN = function(x) strptime(x, "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M")) > > The former is recommended for use in zoo. >
Sorry, it's not that I'm trying to make it complicated, but rather specific. As Gabor said in the earlier post, it seems POSIXlt is not a suitable argument for read.zoo, and therefore explains the problem that I have been having. Like I said, I was able to produce the solution that I wanted; however, it was not as efficient and elegant as I was hoping it to be. When going through 2 year span data sets, there is a noticeable difference in speed when you use POSIXlt separately outside the read.zoo function. Anyway, it's fine. I appreciate the feedback and suggestion. It definitely helps bounce ideas around and possibly offers ways to expand R source code in the future maybe. Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/simple-read-in-with-zoo-using-POSIXlt-tp4557138p4559760.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.