[R] writing dates to a file

[David Winsemius]

On May 24, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Andy Zhu wrote:

> I think if you attach the output file would make clear.  I guess it  
> is very likely your merge has the problem, not the write.table.

No. The merge woks fine. write.table is not writing the date indices  
but write.zoo would. Tested.

-- 
david.
> You may need "by" parameter in merge based on the date.  It also  
> could be date value is converged to numeric value, in this case you  
> just need to convert it back.
>
>
> --- On Tue, 5/24/11, Heiman, Thomas J. <theiman at mitre.org> wrote:
>
> From: Heiman, Thomas J. <theiman at mitre.org>
> Subject: [R] writing dates to a file
> To: "R-help at r-project.org" <R-help at r-project.org>
> Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 2:34 PM
>
> Hi,
>
> I have attached the data files to this note.   I use this code:
>
> library(zoo)
> z1 <- read.zoo("baltimorefludata.txt", format = "%m/%d/%Y", header =  
> TRUE)
> z2 <- read.zoo("baltimorew.txt", format = "%Y%m%d", header = TRUE)
>
> z3<-merge(z1,z2)
>
> write.table(z3, "fluweatherdata_baltimore2.txt", sep="\t")
>
> R is writing the other data to the file but not the dates...  Is  
> there a way to also write the dates to the file?  Thank you!!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> tom
>
> Thomas Heiman, PhD
> Info Systems Eng, Sr
> The MITRE Corporation | Center for Enterprise Modernization
> Office: 703-983-2951 | theiman at mitre.org<mailto:theiman at mitre.org>
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David Winsemius, MD
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