[R] putting a column name on a zoo object

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Wed Nov 15 00:57:35 CET 2006


Unfortunately that's wrong.  Look at ?zoo .  The first
argument must be a numeric vector, matrix or factor.  A data
frame is not allowed.

On 11/14/06, Horace Tso <Horace.Tso at pgn.com> wrote:
> Mark, it's not the most elegant solution but here it is,
>
> I have a zoo with a vector of numeric values,
>
> > head(spc.z)
> 2000-01-03 2000-01-04 2000-01-05 2000-01-06 2000-01-07 2000-01-10
>   1455.22    1399.42    1402.11    1403.45    1441.47    1457.60
>
> > class(spc.z)
> [1] "zoo"
>
> Now I want to give it a name,
>
> z = zoo(data.frame(mydata=coredata(spc.z)), index(spc.z))
>
> > head(z)
>            mydata
> 2000-01-03 1455.22
> 2000-01-04 1399.42
> 2000-01-05 1402.11
> 2000-01-06 1403.45
> 2000-01-07 1441.47
> 2000-01-10 1457.60
>
> HTH
>
> H.
>
>
> >>> "Leeds, Mark (IED)" <Mark.Leeds at morganstanley.com> 11/14/2006
> 1:49:24 PM >>>
> I only have one column so when I try your suggestion, I get dsays,
> "attempt to set colnames on object with less than two dimensions.
> It is of class zoo but I guess something changes during that addition
> that I am too much of a novice to understand.
>
> This is what a dput gives. There is no dim in the dput which is
> probably
> what the problem is but I don't know how to fix it. Thanks.
>
>
> structure(c(4.77126598671015, 4.7716359319335, 4.77176152623894,
> 4.77196709472722, 4.77218067995761, 4.77213077515643, 4.77200790109121,
>
> 4.77203963822312, 4.7719973218234, 4.771903278968, 4.77183227075241,
> 4.77182803831544, 4.77181216651724, 4.77182803831544, 4.77197193112401,
>
> 4.77198938729909, 4.77201612933324, 4.77202905929107, 4.7720184802471,
>
> 4.77188623275365, 4.77181745714463, 4.77187036187909, 4.77187036187909,
>
> 4.77187036187909, 4.77182803831544, 4.77182803831544, 4.77174338581391,
>
> 4.77179982161115, 4.77174338581391, 4.77182199194583, 4.77179417817475,
>
> 4.77174338581391, 4.77174338581391, 4.77179982161115, 4.77182803831544,
>
> 4.77182803831544, 4.77187036187909, 4.77191268365153, 4.7719338438661,
>
> 4.77191268365153, 4.77176690111649, 4.77188094249012, 4.77189857659306,
>
> 4.77212752040897, 4.77224143026734, 4.77240630536398), index =
> structure(c(1144022520,
> 1144022580, 1144022640, 1144022700, 1144022760, 1144022820, 1144022880,
>
> 1144022940, 1144023000, 1144023060, 1144023120, 1144023180, 1144023240,
>
> 1144023300, 1144023360, 1144023420, 1144023480, 1144023540, 1144023600,
>
> 1144023660, 1144023720, 1144023780, 1144023840, 1144023900, 1144023960,
>
> 1144024020, 1144024080, 1144024140, 1144024200, 1144024260, 1144024320,
>
> 1144024380, 1144024440, 1144024500, 1144024560, 1144024620, 1144024680,
>
> 1144024740, 1144024800, 1144024860, 1144024920, 1144024980, 1144025040,
>
> 1144025100, 1144025160, 1144025220), class = c("POSIXt", "POSIXct"
> )), class = "zoo", .Names = c("1144022520", "1144022580", "1144022640",
>
> "1144022700", "1144022760", "1144022820", "1144022880", "1144022940",
> "1144023000", "1144023060", "1144023120", "1144023180", "1144023240",
> "1144023300", "1144023360", "1144023420", "1144023480", "1144023540",
> "1144023600", "1144023660", "1144023720", "1144023780", "1144023840",
> "1144023900", "1144023960", "1144024020", "1144024080", "1144024140",
> "1144024200", "1144024260", "1144024320", "1144024380", "1144024440",
> "1144024500", "1144024560", "1144024620", "1144024680", "1144024740",
> "1144024800", "1144024860", "1144024920", "1144024980", "1144025040",
> "1144025100", "1144025160", "1144025220"))
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leeds, Mark (IED)
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 4:39 PM
> To: 'Horace Tso'; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: RE: [R] putting a column name on a zoo object
>
>  let me try colnames. I thought I tried that earlier and got an error
> but I've been wrong before.
>  Thanks.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Horace Tso [mailto:Horace.Tso at pgn.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 4:29 PM
> To: Leeds, Mark (IED); r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] putting a column name on a zoo object
>
> Mark,
>
> What's wrong with the following,
>
> > head(sp.z)
>              Open    High     Low   Close     Volume Adj..Close.
> 2000-01-03 1469.25 1478.00 1438.36 1455.22  931800000     1455.22
> 2000-01-04 1455.22 1455.22 1397.43 1399.42 1009000000     1399.42
> 2000-01-05 1399.42 1413.27 1377.68 1402.11 1085500032     1402.11
> 2000-01-06 1402.11 1411.90 1392.10 1403.45 1092300032     1403.45
> 2000-01-07 1403.45 1441.47 1400.73 1441.47 1225200000     1441.47
> 2000-01-10 1441.47 1464.36 1441.47 1457.60 1064800000     1457.60
>
>  colnames(sp.z)
> [1] "Open"        "High"        "Low"         "Close"       "Volume"
>
>
> [6] "Adj..Close."
>
> > colnames(sp.z)[1] = "OPEN"
>
> > colnames(sp.z)
> [1] "OPEN"    "High"        "Low"         "Close"       "Volume"
> [6] "Adj..Close."
>
> HTH.
>
> Horace W. Tso
>
>
>
>
> >>> "Leeds, Mark (IED)" <Mark.Leeds at morganstanley.com> 11/14/2006
> 1:21:33 PM >>>
> does anyone know how to put a column name on a zoo object. I think
> achim
> and gabor are off line or they have gotten totally tired of me an
> decided to ignore me ( which is totalyy understandable ).
>
> logbidask<-log((aggfxdata[,"bid"] + aggfxdata[,"ask"])/2.0) logbidask
> doesn't have a name and I can't figure out how to get one on it ?
>
> aggfxdata is a zoo object.
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