R: Reads a 'timeSeries' from a File

readSeries {timeSeries}

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Reads a 'timeSeries' from a File

Description

Reads a file in table format and creates a timeSeries object from it. The first column of the table must hold the timestamps. Format of the stimestamps can be either specified in the header of the first column or by the format argument.

Usage

readSeries(file, header = TRUE, sep = ";", zone = "", 
    FinCenter = "",  format, ...)

Arguments

`file`	the filename of a spreadsheet data set from which to import the data records.
`FinCenter`	a character with the the location of the financial center named as "continent/city".
`header`	a logical value indicating whether the file contains the names of the variables as its first line. If missing, the value is determined from the file format: 'header' is set to 'TRUE' if and only if the first row contains one fewer field than the number of columns.
`format`	a character string with the format in POSIX notation specifying the timestamp format. Note the function assumes that the first column in the csv file has the timestamps.
`sep`	the field seperator used in the spreadsheet file to separate columns.
`zone`	the time zone or financial center where the data were recorded.
`...`	Additional arguments passed to `read.table()` function which is used to read the file.

Value

Return a S4 object of class timeSeries.

[Package timeSeries version 2160.95 Index]