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End of Month date capture

2 messages · Research, Gabor Grothendieck

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Dear R-users,

I have the following zoo object:

            x1                    x2          x3           x4           
x5         x6
1998-08-31 -0.0704375904          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-09-01  0.0379028122          NA          NA           NA           
NA 0.00609139
1998-09-02 -0.0038191639          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-09-03 -0.0083235389          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-09-04 -0.0085576782          NA          NA 0.0028570541           
NA         NA
1998-09-07  0.0000000000          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-09-08  0.0496459618          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-09-09 -0.0170081847          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-09-10 -0.0261897076          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-09-11  0.0290280530          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-09-14  0.0202677162          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-09-15  0.0077005314          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-09-16  0.0074886581          NA          NA           NA 
-0.002710978         NA
1998-09-17 -0.0257819401          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-09-18  0.0011966887          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-09-21  0.0037182403          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-09-22  0.0055904154          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-09-23  0.0347982355          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-09-24 -0.0221650663          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-09-25  0.0019449387          NA 0.007833611           NA           
NA         NA
1998-09-28  0.0037641439          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-09-29  0.0003146288          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-09-30 -0.0309894451          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-10-01 -0.0305704149          NA          NA           NA           
NA 0.00000000
1998-10-02  0.0163000909 -0.03409975          NA 0.0004991463           
NA         NA
1998-10-05 -0.0141025660          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-10-06 -0.0040240279          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-10-07 -0.0142284540          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-10-08 -0.0116470759          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-10-09  0.0256723791          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-10-12  0.0134404929          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-10-13 -0.0029209410          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-10-14  0.0107283327          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-10-15  0.0408820605          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-10-16  0.0084890073          NA          NA           NA  
0.006675831         NA
1998-10-19  0.0056352536          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-10-20  0.0014485122          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-10-21  0.0056142800          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-10-22  0.0079687631          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
1998-10-23 -0.0072680217          NA          NA           NA           
NA         NA
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I need to create second one which contains the end of each month rows 
only. Is there an easy way of doing this? The data starts at 1998-08-31 
and ends at 2009-11-06.

Many thanks in advance,
Costas
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Here is one possibility using aggregate.zoo
x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6
Aug 1998 -0.07043759 NA NA NA NA NA
Sep 1998 -0.03098945 NA NA NA NA NA
Oct 1998 -0.00726802 NA NA NA NA NA

The above is not strictly what you asked for since it uses yearmon
times.  Here is another solution in which we create a new zoo object
of sequential indexes and then extract the aggregated indexes from z.
This also uses aggregate.zoo:
x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6
1998-08-31 -0.07043759 NA NA NA NA NA
1998-09-30 -0.03098945 NA NA NA NA NA
1998-10-23 -0.00726802 NA NA NA NA NA

Here is one that uses aggregate from the core of R rather than aggregate.zoo:
x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6
1998-08-31 -0.07043759 NA NA NA NA NA
1998-09-30 -0.03098945 NA NA NA NA NA
1998-10-23 -0.00726802 NA NA NA NA NA
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Research <risk2009 at ath.forthnet.gr> wrote: