R: Read Time Series Data

read.ts {tseries} | R Documentation

## Read Time Series Data

### Description

Reads a time series file.

### Usage

    read.ts(file, header = FALSE, sep = "", skip = 0, ...)

### Arguments

`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`.

### Details

Each row of the file represents an observation and each column contains a variable. The first row possibly contains the names of the variables.

### Author(s)

A. Trapletti

### See Also

`ts`.

### Examples

    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")

[Package tseries version 0.10-47 Index]