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Time Series

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 consentino at infinito.it wrote:

            
The autocorrelation function is a theoretical quantity: acf() estimates 
it, not calculates it.  (Do read its help page carefully.)

For `unequally spaced time series' you would need to define what you mean
by the autocorrelation function, then find a credible estimator.
(One way forward is to assume you have a sample of a continuous-time 
series, but only one.)
None of the above!

Depends what you want to do with it, but the structures offered by the 
packages tseries, zoo and its seem more suitable.