Hi all, I bumped into this awkward zoo behaviour. I'd be half tempted to call it a bug, what do you think? It's annoying to work around it :( I wonder if this was the behaviour of older zoo versions, I can't remember coming across this sort of thing...
> version _ platform i386-pc-solaris2.10 arch i386 os solaris2.10 system i386, solaris2.10 status major 2 minor 10.1 year 2009 month 12 day 14 svn rev 50720 language R version.string R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) > packageDescription("zoo") Package: zoo Version: 1.6-2 Date: 2009-11-23 >t1 = zoo(-100, as.POSIXct("2009-12-31")+(2:10)*60*60*24) >t2 = zoo(matrix(0), index(t1)[1]-1) >colnames(t1)="test" >colnames(t2) = colnames(t1) > t1 2010-01-02 2010-01-03 2010-01-04 2010-01-05 2010-01-06 2010-01-07 2010-01-08 -100 -100 -100 -100 -100 -100 -100 2010-01-09 2010-01-10 -100 -100 > t2 2010-01-01 23:59:59 0 >rbind(t1,t2) 2010-01-01 23:59:59 0 2010-01-02 00:00:00 -100 2010-01-03 00:00:00 0 2010-01-04 00:00:00 -100 2010-01-05 00:00:00 0 2010-01-06 00:00:00 -100 2010-01-07 00:00:00 0 2010-01-08 00:00:00 -100 2010-01-09 00:00:00 0 2010-01-10 00:00:00 -100 Warning message: In rbind(c(-100, -100, -100, -100, -100, -100, -100, -100, -100), : number of columns of result is not a multiple of vector length (arg 1) >rbind(as.xts(t1),as.xts(t2)) [,1] 2010-01-01 23:59:59 0 2010-01-02 00:00:00 -100 2010-01-03 00:00:00 -100 2010-01-04 00:00:00 -100 2010-01-05 00:00:00 -100 2010-01-06 00:00:00 -100 2010-01-07 00:00:00 -100 2010-01-08 00:00:00 -100 2010-01-09 00:00:00 -100 2010-01-10 00:00:00 -100 And also: > t1 = zoo(matrix(-100,ncol=1), as.POSIXct("2009-12-31")+(2:10)*60*60*24) > rbind(t1,t2) 2010-01-01 23:59:59 0 2010-01-02 00:00:00 -100 2010-01-03 00:00:00 -100 2010-01-04 00:00:00 -100 2010-01-05 00:00:00 -100 2010-01-06 00:00:00 -100 2010-01-07 00:00:00 -100 2010-01-08 00:00:00 -100 2010-01-09 00:00:00 -100 2010-01-10 00:00:00 -100 Cheers, //Giuseppe ---- MAKO ---- This email and any files transmitted with it are confide...{{dropped:14}} ______________________________________________ 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.