[R] align() function missing in R ?

[Martin Maechler]

Hi Markus,

You can't assume that a typical R users knows much about S+.
"R has been beyond S+ for a long time"  
   {{ :-) :-) please Insightful staff, don't start to jump at me !}}
Even I, as a very long time S and Splus user (of the past: 
1987--~1997), have never, I think, used align().

Can you give *reproducible examples* of what  align() does for you?
Then, kind R users will typically show you simple ways to achieve the
same.

Also: R is Free Software (i.e. open source and more), so
      we'd be happy to accept offers of an align() function that
      behaved compatibly (``or better'') than the S-plus one.
Note however that you'd typically not be allowed to copy the
S-plus implementation.

Martin


>>>>> "ML" == Markus Loecher <markus at insightfromdata.com>
>>>>>     on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:10:51 -0400 writes:

    ML> Dear list members, I switched from Splus to R a few
    ML> years ago and so far found no functionality missing.
    ML> However, I am struggling to find the equivalent align()
    ML> function for time series. I did find some reduced
    ML> functionality such as alignDailySeries in
    ML> package:fCalendar but the full capability of aligning
    ML> two timeseries seems to be missing.  Could this be true
    ML> ? I am sure there must be a need for this useful
    ML> function.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    ML> Thanks !

    ML> Markus