Re: [Gretl-devel] refinement to export to R

On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, oleg_komashko(a)ukr.net wrote: [...] > As for me, the most tedious thing > with Main/Tools/Start GNU R > are time series > In this case class(gretldata)->"mts" > > That's why I never use Tools/Start GNU R > with time series: instead I run the following > R script from gretl > <R > # choose interactive R session > if (any(class(gretldata)!="data.frame")) > {mts2frame2<-function(x) > {ddd<-data.frame(x); > if (length(class(x))>1) > {m<-ncol(x);for (i in 1:m) > ddd[,i]<-ts(ddd[,i],start=start(x),frequency=frequency(x))} > else > ddd[,1]<-ts(ddd[,1],start=start(x),frequency=frequency(x)); > ddd}; > gretldata<-mts2frame2(gretldata)} > > # make native gretl variables names searcheable > attach(gretldata) > R> Is that the general opinion? That is, that R's multiple time series object ("mts") is of no use and we're better creating a data frame and copying the time-series attributes across per series. If so, we could easily revise our R-data exporter to do just that for time series datasets.