read.ts {tseries} | R Documentation |
Reads a time series file.
read.ts(file, header = FALSE, sep = "", skip = 0, ...)
file |
the name of the file which the data are to be read from. Each line of the file contains one observation of the variables. |
header |
a logical value indicating whether the file contains the names of the variables as its first line. |
sep |
the field separator character. Values on each line of the file are separated by this character. |
skip |
the number of lines of the data file to skip before beginning to read data. |
... |
Additional arguments for ts such as, e.g.,
start . |
Each row of the file represents an observation and each column contains a variable. The first row possibly contains the names of the variables.
A. Trapletti
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data(sunspots) st <- start(sunspots) fr <- frequency(sunspots) write(sunspots, "sunspots", ncolumns=1) x <- read.ts("sunspots", start=st, frequency=fr) plot(x) unlink("sunspots")