R: Read Time Series Data

read.ts {tseries}

R Documentation

Read Time Series Data

Description

Reads a time series file.

Usage

read.ts(file, header = FALSE, sep = "", skip = 0, ...)

Arguments

`file`	the name of the file which the data are to be read from. Each line of the file contains one observation of the variables.
`header`	a logical value indicating whether the file contains the names of the variables as its first line.
`sep`	the field separator character. Values on each line of the file are separated by this character.
`skip`	the number of lines of the data file to skip before beginning to read data.
`...`	Additional arguments for `ts` such as, e.g., `start`.

Details

Each row of the file represents an observation and each column contains a variable. The first row possibly contains the names of the variables.

Author(s)

A. Trapletti

Examples

data(sunspots)
st <- start(sunspots)
fr <- frequency(sunspots)
write(sunspots, "sunspots", ncolumns=1)
x <- read.ts("sunspots", start=st, frequency=fr)
plot(x)
unlink("sunspots")

[Package tseries version 0.10-29 Index]