[R] Help with Dates

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On 26 Jul 2007 09:59:31 -0400, Jeffrey J. Hallman <jhallman at frb.gov> wrote:
> zoo is nice.  'tisFromCsv()' in the fame package is nicer.
>
> Jeff


1. What am I doing wrong here?  I only get one data column.
2. I assume the regularized dates which do not exactly match the input ones
    are intended so as to make this a regularly spaced series.  Is that right?
3. What is the cause of the warning message?
4. Why is a list returned with a single component containing the output?
Thanks.

> library(fame)
> Lines <- " Date  Price Open.Int. Comm.Long Comm.Short net.comm
+ 15-Jan-86 673.25    175645     65910      28425    37485
+ 31-Jan-86 677.00    167350     54060      27120    26940
+ 14-Feb-86 680.25    157985     37955      25425    12530
+ 28-Feb-86 691.75    162775     49760      16030    33730
+ 14-Mar-86 706.50    163495     54120      27995    26125
+ 31-Mar-86 709.75    164120     54715      30390    24325
+ "
> tisFromCsv(textConnection(Lines), dateFormat = "%d-%b-%y", dateCol = "Date", sep = "")
[[1]]
           [,1]
19860119 673.25
19860202 677.00
19860216 680.25
19860302 691.75
19860316 706.50
19860330 709.75
class: tis

Warning message:
number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length in:
x[i] <- value