as.data.table.xts: Efficient xts to as.data.table conversion

In Rdatatable/data.table: Extension of `data.frame`

Efficient xts to as.data.table conversion

Description

Efficient conversion xts to data.table.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'xts'
as.data.table(x, keep.rownames = TRUE, key=NULL, ...)

Arguments

x	xts to convert to data.table
keep.rownames	Default is TRUE. If TRUE, adds the xts input's index as a separate column named "index". keep.rownames = "id" names the index column "id" instead.
key	Character vector of one or more column names which is passed to setkeyv.
...	ignored, just for consistency with as.data.table

See Also

as.xts.data.table

Examples

if (requireNamespace("xts", quietly = TRUE)) {
  data(sample_matrix, package = "xts")
  sample.xts <- xts::as.xts(sample_matrix) # xts might not be attached on search path
  # print head of xts
  print(head(sample.xts))
  # print data.table
  print(as.data.table(sample.xts))
}

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