TSquery {TSdbi}R Documentation

Construct Time Series Data From a Database

Description

Construct a time series from a database

Usage

    TSquery(select, dateField, table, where=NULL, frequency="monthly",
             con=options()$connection)

Arguments

select character string used to construct query.
dateField character string used to construct query.
table character string used to construct query.
where character string used to construct query.
frequency character string used to specify frequency of the result (only "monthly" or "annual" are currently supported.
con A database connection.

Details

This functions is unlike other functins in this package (and may eventually be moved to a separate package). It construct a time series from a database (using a connection) and a query generated with the function arguments. An example query might be something like z<- TSquery(select="SUM(amount )", dateField="issue_date", table="term", where="term > 10", frequency="annual", con=con)

Value

A time series or time series matrix.

See Also

TSget,


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