base-attach: Attach a 'timeSeries' to the search path

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Attach a 'timeSeries' to the search path

Description

Attaches a "timeSeries" object to the search path.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'timeSeries'
attach(what, pos = 2, name = deparse(substitute(what)), 
    warn.conflicts = TRUE)

Arguments

name	alternative way to specify the database to be attached. See for details help(attach, package = base).
pos	an integer specifying position in search() where to attach the database. See for details help(attach, package = base).
warn.conflicts	a logical value. If TRUE, warnings are printed about conflicts from attaching the database, unless that database contains an object .conflicts.OK. A conflict is a function masking a function, or a non-function masking a non-function. See for details help(attach, package = base).
what	database to be attached. This may currently be a "timeSeries" object, a data.frame, a list, an R data file created with save, NULL, or an environment. See for details help(attach, package = base).

Value

the environment, invisibly, with a name attribute

Note

The function detach from the base package can be used to detach the attached objects.

Examples

## Load Microsoft Data Set - 
   x <- MSFT[1:10, ]
   colnames(x)
   
## Attach the Series and Compute the Range - 
   attach(x)
   range <- High - Low
   range
   
## Convert Vector to a \code{"timeSeries"} Object -
   timeSeries(data=range, charvec=time(x), units="Range")
   
## Detach the series from the search path -
   detach("x")
   ans <- try(High, silent=TRUE)
   cat(ans[1])

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