R/data.frame.R

In R-Finance/xts: eXtensible Time Series

#
#   xts: eXtensible time-series 
#
#   Copyright (C) 2008  Jeffrey A. Ryan jeff.a.ryan @ gmail.com
#
#   Contributions from Joshua M. Ulrich
#
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# functions to handle data.frame <--> xts conversions

`re.data.frame` <-
function(x,...) {
  data.frame(x,...)
}

`as.xts.data.frame` <-
function(x,order.by,dateFormat="POSIXct",frequency=NULL,...,.RECLASS=FALSE) {
  # Should allow 'order.by' to be a vector of dates or a scaler
  # representing the column number to use.
  if(missing(order.by)) # added '...' args to allow for tz specification
    order.by <- do.call(paste('as',dateFormat,sep='.'),list(rownames(x)))
  if(.RECLASS) {
  xx <- xts(x,
            order.by=order.by,
            frequency=frequency,
            .CLASS='data.frame',
            ...)
  } else {
  xx <- xts(x,
            order.by=order.by,
            frequency=frequency,
            ...)
  }
  xx
}

`as.data.frame.xts` <-
function(x,row.names=NULL,optional=FALSE,...) {
  if(missing(row.names))
    row.names <- as.character(index(x))
  as.data.frame(coredata(x),row.names,optional,...)
}