How to get monthly time series cross sectional into zoo using R - r

I want to get a panel data set into zoo so that it catches both month and year. My data set looks like this.
and the data can be downloaded from HERE.
The best way I could do is,
dat<-read.csv("dat_lag.csv")
zdat <- read.zoo(dat, format="%d/%m/%Y")
However, I could do this by including column 1- Date and column 4- Day in my data set. Is there any clever way to get both month and year into zoo using R without including the Date and Day columns? Thanks, in advance for any help.

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How to convert a weekly dataset into a time series in R

i have a WEEKLY dataset that start on 1986.01.03 and end on 2022-10-07.
The problem is when I forecast the time series with Arima +garch, because the date in T0 is wrong, i.e. 1975 enter image description here.
The function that I used to convert the dataset into time series is here, but I think that the problem is here, since it doesn't take on the right date.
FutureWeekly= ts(WeeklyFuture$FutureWeekly, start= c(1986,1), end = c(2022,10), frequency = 52)
does anyone know how to convert a weekly dataset to time series other than this?
There are the first rows of my dataset and then I have to transform that into returns (diff(log(FutureWeekly) to do the ARMA+GARCH
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Try this:
futures<-c(WeeklyFuture$FutureWeekly) #convert to vector
FutureWeekly= ts(futures, start= c(1986,1,10), end = c(1986,3,7), frequency = 52) #add day of week ending on
One of the things ts() demands is a vector of values. I think it might also be easier for ts() to convert the data if it was able to see the 7-day increments.
Assuming you have full un-broken weekly data for the entire period, I think these two things will solve the problem.

Date Class Altered After Calling R.ts

I have a dataframe with 2 columns: a date column and an observation column.
Here is the head:
I call ts with this line of code
data_grp_ts = ts(data_grp, frequency = 52)
And when I look at the head of the resulting time series, the date is gone:
There is 2 years of data in the data frame (104 observations) and the resulting time series index is unexpected
index(data_grp_ts)
Is there something wrong with the original date format?
Thanks in advance
Since there is not enough info in the post for people to answer this, I am closing it and will re-open a new post with more detail. It is found here: Working With Weekly Time Series Data In R using xts

My data does not convert to time series in R

My data contains several measurements in one day. It is stored in CSV-file and looks like this:
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The V1 column is factor type, so I'm adding a extra column which is date-time -type: vd$Vdate <- as_datetime(vd$V1) :
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Then I'm trying to convert the vd-data into time series: vd.ts<- ts(vd, frequency = 365)
But then the dates are gone:
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I just cannot get it what I am doing wrong! Could someone help me, please.
Your dates are gone because you need to build the ts dataframe from your variables (V1, ... V7) disregarding the date field and your ts command will order R to structure the dates.
Also, I noticed that you have what is seems like hourly data, so you need to provide the frequency that is appropriate to your time not 365. Considering what you posted your frequency seems to be a bit odd. I recommend finding a way to establish the frequency correctly. For example, if I have hourly data for 365 days of the year then I have a frequency of 365.25*24 (0.25 for the leap years).
So the following is just as an example, it still won't work properly with what I see (it is limited view of your dataset so I am not sure 100%)
# Build ts data (univariate)
vs.ts <- ts(vd$V1, frequency = 365, start = c(2019, 4)
# check to see if it is structured correctly
print(vd.ts, calendar = T)
Finally my time series is working properly. I used
ts <- zoo(measurements, date_times)
and I found out that the date_times was supposed to be converted with as_datetime() as otherwise they were character type. The measurements are converted into data.frame type.

How can I convert a characters into dates in RStudio?

still new to R. I wanted to create a simple (bar) chart of the fluctuations/occurrences of burglaries per month in my city. I found that the column, 'Occurence_Date' is a character, I wanted it to be "time", or something simpler, to create a visualization. I wanted the "x-axis" to be the months of January to June 2019, with the "y-axis" to be the amount of burglaries per month. Can anyone help me get started on this please? Thanks!
This is my data frame
The lubridate package is very helpful for working with dates and times in R.
# load.packages("lubridate") ## only run once
library(lubridate)
df$Occurence_Date <- ymd(df$Occurence_Date) # converts text in year month day format, igrores time
Generally it's better to put example data in your question so people can work with it and show an example.

Creating a single timestamp from separate DAY OF YEAR, Year and Time columns in R

I have a time series dataset for several meteorological variables. The time data is logged in three separate columns:
Year (e.g. 2012)
Day of year (e.g. 261 representing 17-September in a Leap Year)
Hrs:Mins (e.g. 1610)
Is there a way I can merge the three columns to create a single timestamp in R? I'm not very familiar with how R deals with the Day of Year variable.
Thanks for any help with this!
It looks like the timeDate package can handle gregorian time frames. I haven't used it personally but it looks straightforward. There is a shift argument in some methods that allow you to set the offset from your data.
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/timeDate/timeDate.pdf
Because you mentioned it, I thought I'd show the actual code to merge together separate columns. When you have the values you need in separate columns you can use paste to bring them together and lubridate::mdy to parse them.
library(lubridate)
col.month <- "Jan"
col.year <- "2012"
col.day <- "23"
date <- mdy(paste(col.month, col.day, col.year, sep = "-"))
Lubridate is a great package, here's the official page: https://github.com/hadley/lubridate
And here is a nice set of examples: http://www.r-statistics.com/2012/03/do-more-with-dates-and-times-in-r-with-lubridate-1-1-0/
You should get quite far using ISOdatetime. This function takes vectors of year, day, hour, and minute as input and outputs an POSIXct object which represents time. You just have to split the third column into two separate hour minute columns and you can use the function.

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