[R] align

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Its in 'its' but due to the use of namespaces in 'its'
one must do this to access it directly:

its:::most.recent

On 5/18/05, Omar Lakkis <uofiowa at gmail.com> wrote:
> From the definition of locf
> 
> > locf
> function (x)
> {
>    if (!inherits(x, "its"))
>        stop("function is only valid for objects of class 'its'")
>    y <- x
>    jna <- which(apply(is.na(x), 2, any))
>    for (j in jna) { y[, j] <- y[most.recent(!is.na(y[, j])), j] }
>    return(y)
> }
> 
> Where is the function most.recent? It si not in its.
> 
> On 5/18/05, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Check out the 'locf' function in the 'its' package and the 'na.locf'
> > function in the 'zoo' package.
> >
> > On 5/18/05, Omar Lakkis <uofiowa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Is there a function in R that is similar to Splus's align?
> > >
> > > The idea is, if I have a data.frame, or an its object that is like this:
> > >
> > > 2002-01-03   5
> > > 2002-01-04   NA
> > > 2002-01-05   7
> > > 2002-01-06   NA
> > >
> > > I want to align it by the last value to this:
> > >
> > > 2002-01-03   5
> > > 2002-01-04   5
> > > 2002-01-05   7
> > > 2002-01-06   7
> > >
> > > TITLE:
> > >        Function align
> > >
> > > USAGE:
> > >        align(x, pos, how, error.how, localzone, matchtol, by, k.by,
> > >        week.align, holidays)
> > >
> > > ARGUMENTS:
> > >  x:  argument, no default.
> > >  pos:  argument, no default.
> > >  how:  argument, `default = "NA".'
> > >  error.how:  argument, `default = "NA".'
> > >  localzone:  argument, `default = F.'
> > >  matchtol:  argument, `default = 0.'
> > >  by:  argument, no default.
> > >  k.by:  argument, `default = 1.'
> > >  week.align:  argument, `default = NULL.'
> > >  holidays:  argument, `default = timeDate().'
> > >
> > > DESCRIPTION:
> > >
> > >        Align series object x to new positions
> > >
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