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On 15 Sep 2017, at 12:38, yadav neog <yadavneog at gmail.com> wrote: hello to all. I am working on macroeconomic data series of India, which in a yearly basis. I am unable to convert my data frame into time series.
Do you really need to convert your data to time series/xts/zoo? I don?t know you try what kind of an analysis but perhaps you don?t have to.
kindly help me. also using zoo and xts packages. but they take only monthly observations.
If you really have to convert to xts/zoo, why don?t yo set each year to first day of January and use it as is? For instance, index, cnsm, incm, wlth 1980-01-01, 174, 53.4, 60.3 1981-01-01, 175, 53.7, 60.5 1982-01-01, 175, 53.5, 60.2 ?..
'data.frame': 30 obs. of 4 variables: $ year: int 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 ... $ cnsm: num 174 175 175 172 173 ... $ incm: num 53.4 53.7 53.5 53.2 53.3 ... $ wlth: num 60.3 60.5 60.2 60.1 60.7 ... -- Yadawananda Neog Research Scholar Department of Economics Banaras Hindu University Mob. 9838545073