[R] FW: R and read.irts

[Gabor Grothendieck]

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Look at R News 4/1 in general for info on dates and times and
if you still have a problem repost running this and placing its
output into the body of your post so we can see what your
data look like.

   Lines <- readLines(myfile)  # read in lines without parsing them
   dput(head(Lines))  # display first few lines in a way easy to read back in


On 12/28/05, Mark Leeds <Mleeds at kellogggroup.com> wrote:
> I have never worked with R before so I am
> sorry if this is a bad question but I've
> tried and tried ( all day ) and I can't figure this
> problem out. I have the code below and I included the
> data file as an attachment.
>
> The code works in term of reading in the data
> correctly but when the graph gets
> created, the xaxis is really strangely/incorrectly
> labelled. I have been trying
> to understand this Posixct stuff in R but
> I think this is where my knowledge is lacking and is maybe causing the
> problem ?
> Thank you very much.
>
> I am using R in windows but through cygwin if that matters
> but I doubt it does. Thanks again.
>
>                                  Mark
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> postscript(file="burp.ps")
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> library(quadprog)
> library(zoo)
> library(tseries)
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> temp<-read.irts('~/ml/research/data/highfreq.dat',format="%H:%M:%S",tz="
> GMT",sep=",",header=FALSE,row.names=NULL,
> col.names=c("transdate","transprice","transamount"))
>
> temp
>
> plot(temp,type="l",xlab="Time",ylab=NULL,main=NULL,ylim=NULL)
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