[R] still need read.zoo command help

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Hasan Diwan <hasan.diwan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Henry,
> You're reading a CSV with read.zoo. This is not likely to work. The
> way I'd do this is:
> data <- read.csv('/tmp/Kevin-0-comma-ITPower.txt', header=FALSE)
> z <- zoo(data[,2], order.by=as.POSIXct(data[,1], format='%d/%m/%y
> %H:%M:%S') # or whatever your format actually is...
>

If you wanted to read in the csv data with a first column in the
format shown by the poster, no header and a POSIXct index then it
would be done like this where Lines and fmt are defined in my last
post:

 read.zoo(text = Lines, format = fmt, tz = "", sep = ",")

however, note that the poster intends subsequent use of chron, not
POSIXct.  Also see R News 4/1 regarding choosing index classes.

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