[R] Ordering zoo-object by its index

Sergey Goriatchev sergeyg at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 16:06:13 CEST 2009


Hi, Gabor

Yes, I am familiar with tail() function. I use it extensively on a day
to day basis.
In this particular case I needed to order a zoo object by date, after
I have created it with RBloomberg.

Thank you for your time!

Regards,
Sergey

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 14:36, Gabor Grothendieck<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> One additional thought. If the reason you want to do that is
> just so that you can see the last few rows more easily then
>
> tail(Data)
>
> will display the last few rows or tail(Data, 10) will display
> the last 10 rows.
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Sergey Goriatchev<sergeyg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, Gabor
>>
>> Thank you!
>> That is exactly what I did, even before your email. :-)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sergey
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:52, Gabor Grothendieck<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> To display that object in reverse time order try this:
>>>
>>> as.data.frame(Data)[nrow(Data):1, ]
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Sergey Goriatchev<sergeyg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> Say I have zoo object
>>>>
>>>> x.Date <- as.Date("2003-02-01") + c(1, 3, 7, 9, 14) - 1
>>>> x <- zoo(rnorm(5), x.Date)
>>>> y <- zoo(rt(5, df=2), x.Date)
>>>> z <- zoo(rt(5, df=5), x.Date)
>>>>
>>>> Data <- merge(x,y,z)
>>>>
>>>> What should I do to make the latest values appear at the top?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your help!
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Sergey
>>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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