Very Sorry for the oversight. The dataset that I have used is:
Sunspots,Datefield 9.5,1/1/1900 2.7,1/1/1901 5,1/1/1902 24.4,1/1/1903 42,1/1/1904 63.5,1/1/1905 53.8,1/1/1906 62,1/1/1907 48.5,1/1/1908 43.9,1/1/1909 18.6,1/1/1910 5.7,1/1/1911 3.6,1/1/1912 1.4,1/1/1913 9.6,1/1/1914 47.4,1/1/1915 57.1,1/1/1916 103.9,1/1/1917 80.6,1/1/1918 63.6,1/1/1919 37.6,1/1/1920 26.1,1/1/1921 14.2,1/1/1922 5.8,1/1/1923 16.7,1/1/1924 44.3,1/1/1925 63.9,1/1/1926 69,1/1/1927 77.8,1/1/1928 64.9,1/1/1929 35.7,1/1/1930 21.2,1/1/1931 11.1,1/1/1932 5.7,1/1/1933 8.7,1/1/1934 36.1,1/1/1935 79.7,1/1/1936 114.4,1/1/1937 109.6,1/1/1938 88.8,1/1/1939 67.8,1/1/1940 47.5,1/1/1941 30.6,1/1/1942 16.3,1/1/1943 9.6,1/1/1944 33.2,1/1/1945 92.6,1/1/1946 151.6,1/1/1947 136.3,1/1/1948 134.7,1/1/1949 83.9,1/1/1950 69.4,1/1/1951 31.5,1/1/1952 13.9,1/1/1953 4.4,1/1/1954 38,1/1/1955 141.7,1/1/1956 190.2,1/1/1957 184.8,1/1/1958 159,1/1/1959 112.3,1/1/1960 53.9,1/1/1961 37.5,1/1/1962 27.9,1/1/1963 10.2,1/1/1964 15.1,1/1/1965 47,1/1/1966 93.8,1/1/1967 105.9,1/1/1968 105.5,1/1/1969 104.5,1/1/1970 66.6,1/1/1971 68.9,1/1/1972 38,1/1/1973 34.5,1/1/1974 15.5,1/1/1975 12.6,1/1/1976 27.5,1/1/1977 92.5,1/1/1978 155.4,1/1/1979 32.27,1/1/1980 54.25,1/1/1981 59.65,1/1/1982 63.62,1/1/1983 I convert the Datefield column to class Date, by using Datefield<- as.Date(Datefield,format="%m/%d/%Y") Then I create a time series object by using dtxts<- xts(Sunspots,order.by = Datefield) On using the ACF function acf(dtxts,plot= TRUE,xaxt = "n",col="red",na.action = na.omit) I get the error Error in na.omit.ts(as.ts(x)) : time series contains internal NAs The peculiar issue is that I do not get the above error on - R 2.7 on Ubuntu in India - R 2.8 on Windows in India The error appears when I execute this code on an R 2.8 implementation running on a Fedora machine in the USA. Is it a problem with the locale? Thanks for the help. Really appreciate it. Harsh Singhal Decisions Systems Mu Sigma Inc. Chicago, USA [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.