Convert Data Frame with Date Column to Time Series Object in R (Example) | as.Date & xts Functions

R code of this video:

"2021-07-08",
"2018-01-18",
"2018-05-05",
"2025-12-10"),
value = 1:5)
data

class(data) # Check class of data

data$date ＜- as.Date(data$date) # Convert character string column to date

library("xts")

data_ts ＜- xts(data$value, data$date) # Convert data frame to time series
data_ts # Print time series

class(data_ts) # Check class of time series

# "xts" "zoo"

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[Elleenior]

Most of the tutorials I found they've come with a time-series format and skipped to mention this little crucial thing or use a complex converter function which hardly to follow so I've been searching for the solution for so long. Thank you!!

[biddle]

Thank you! I was trying to use ts() for my time series but it kept messing up the date format, but using xts() finally worked!

[fernandocamargo]

I have visited your website for some research on TS contents, it helped me to sort out some doubts. Thank you again!

[anchalgupta]

Thank a ton for this video. I had a data frame on a weekly level but I wasn't able to convert it into time series object using the regular ts() function. Using xts resolved my problem. Thanks again!

[monalisahota]

Very clear tutorial!
I have a large csv file with date time column for almost every minute for 2 years. I want to get frequency from this column to plot a line graph (since the frequency would represent 'rentals per day' ). Could you please guide on how to get the frequency table and time series or line graph?
I have tried count() and table () with no luck so far. Thanks

[sawsonex]

Thank you for this video! I spent such a long time trying to google and figure out how to do this and this simple video gave me the fix so fast. You earned yourself a sub mate!

[haziq]

what a life saver, save a lot of my time!!

[ahmedJaber]

this good. thank you for this. one issue my data is organised by product. how would i reflect this when converting data points into data series

[estaykylyshbek]

Thank you for the video!!! What should I do if I have multiple columns of values in my dataframe?

[juandelmonte]

Hi, Does the function "xts" deal with daily frequency data and leap years?

[rajashreenath]

Hey how can I find out trend for multiple variables?

[fredericvanackere]

hello, It works for 2 columns, but when we have more, there is an error message: order.by requires an appropriate time-based object

[antoniosampedro]

It is very cool explanation, but what happens when your column to be transformed into 'date' column has different format like (dd/mm/yyyy)?

[Robson-dhun]

Thank's Sr.
If I can ask a question, how can I plot this fo in the future use FFT transform to make predictions ?

[mehnazakhter]

Kindly mention the code for conversion of data frame to class"zooreg" and "zoo" rather than"xts" and "zoo"

[staceyterrell]

How do you convert an existing column in a .csv file from col_character() to col_datetime(format = "")
I'm a beginner to RStudio. Thank you

[sandupaegodage]

nice explanation can you please tell how to split this xts obj so I can do a mlp

[magnus]

I have an excel dataset with 8 variables that i am trying to make into an xts, so i can perform portfolio analysis on the dataset. How do i do this?

[theDfLopes]

noob question: Can I do the same steps to month data (mm/yyyy)?

[frankjr]

Thanks for the video. I was able to accomplish this, however, in the index, my converted dates are appearing as (for example) X2014.12.01 instead of the expected 2014-12-01 date format. Is there way to adjust this? Thank You