On Tuesday 15 July 2008 07:30:09 Francesc Alted wrote:
Maybe is only that. But by using the term 'frequency' I tend to think that you are expecting to have one entry (observation) in your array for each time 'tick' since time start. OTOH, the term 'resolution' doesn't have this implication, and only states the precision of the timestamp.
OK, now I get it.
I don't know whether my impression is true or not, but after reading about your TimeSeries package, I'm still thinking that this expectation of one observation per 'tick' was what driven you to choose the 'frequency' name.
Well, we do require a "one point per tick" for some operations, such as conversion from one frequency to another, but only for TimeSeries. A Date Array doesn't have to be regularly spaced.