[R] Time series indexes

[Thomas Petzoldt]

Fernando Saldanha schrieb:
> I tried to assign values to specific elements of a time series and got
> in trouble. The code below should be almost self-explanatory. I wanted
> to assign 0 to the first element of x, but instead I assigned  zero to
> the second element of x, which is not what I wanted. Is there a
> function that will allow me to do this without going into index
> arithmetic (which would be prone to errors)?
> 
> FS
> 
> 
>>x<- ts(c(1,2,3,4), start = 2)
>>x
> 
> Time Series:
> Start = 2 
> End = 5 
> Frequency = 1 
> [1] 1 2 3 4
> 
>>x[2] <- 0
>>x
> 
> Time Series:
> Start = 2 
> End = 5 
> Frequency = 1 
> [1] 1 0 3 4


Hello Fernando,

is this what you want:

x[time(x)==2] <- 0


ThPe