# TimeSeries.jl package, some information missing from documentation

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/timeseries-jl-package-some-information-missing-from-documentation/94485
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [February 11, 2023, 11:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/timeseries-jl-package-some-information-missing-from-documentation/94485 "2023-02-11T23:57:24Z")
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### Author: ![vsoler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/vsoler/32/30667_2.png) [@vsoler](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vsoler)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2023, 11:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/timeseries-jl-package-some-information-missing-from-documentation/94485/1 "2023-02-11T23:57:24Z")

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I’m studying the TimeSeries Package, which I find very useful.

However, I find that some information is missing from the documentation:

1. the section on “Mathematical, comparison, and logical operators” does not include any examples

2. I’ve been able to create a new TimeSeries Array by combining 2 different columns

```julia
ta[:, :col1] .+ ta[:, :col3]

```

1. The result, however, is a new TimeSeries Array, that I can save.

```julia
ta2 = ta[:, :col1] .+ ta[:, :col3]

```

1. I I want the result of my calculation added to my original Array, I need to execute a hcat

```julia
ta3 = hcat(ta, ta2)

```

1. However, instead of creating a new TimeSeries Array, I would like to create directly an additional column, with something similar to:

```julia
ta[!, :col4] .= ta[:, :col1] .+ ta[:, :col3]

```

… which does not work

Am I doing something wrong?

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### Author: ![tom-plaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tom-plaa](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tom-plaa)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2023, 12:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/timeseries-jl-package-some-information-missing-from-documentation/94485/2 "2023-02-28T12:21:41Z")

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I haven’t tried this myself using TimeSeriesArrays, but if you want to modify an existing array, you can just overwrite it:

```julia
ta = hcat(ta, ta2)

```

On standard Arrays:

```julia
julia> a = rand(3); b = rand(3)
3-element Vector{Float64}:
 0.9536106574209692
 0.7989128765471554
 0.43802663511779616

julia> a = hcat(a,b)
3×2 Matrix{Float64}:
 0.540416 0.953611
 0.403237 0.798913
 0.601049 0.438027

julia> a
3×2 Matrix{Float64}:
 0.540416 0.953611
 0.403237 0.798913
 0.601049 0.438027

```

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### Author: ![mdogan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mdogan/32/47244_2.png) [@mdogan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mdogan)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2023, 2:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/timeseries-jl-package-some-information-missing-from-documentation/94485/3 "2023-02-28T14:51:05Z")

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I suggest using **TSFrames** package instead for time series data. TimeSeries is unmaintained.

Please see:

> <https://github.com/JuliaStats/TimeSeries.jl/issues/515>
>
> I noticed that the last commit is from January and that there are lot's of open …and unanswered issues as well as open PRs. So I was wondering if \`TimeSeries.jl\` is still maintained?

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### Author: ![vsoler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/vsoler/32/30667_2.png) [@vsoler](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vsoler)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2023, 11:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/timeseries-jl-package-some-information-missing-from-documentation/94485/4 "2023-03-09T11:38:25Z")

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@mdogan

TSFrames does not install in my PC

```julia
(@v1.8) pkg> add TSFrames
   Resolving package versions...
ERROR: TOML Parser error:
C:\Users\USUARIO\.julia\registries\General\R/Rotations\Versions.toml:1:1 error: invalid bare key character: '\0'

```

It seems to me that there is an error in the package.

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### Author: ![nilshg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nilshg/32/2283_2.png) [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2023, 11:42am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/timeseries-jl-package-some-information-missing-from-documentation/94485/5 "2023-03-09T11:42:29Z")

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Works fine for me, this looks more like your registry is corrupted, try `]registry rm General` and `]registry add General`

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### Author: ![mdogan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mdogan/32/47244_2.png) [@mdogan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mdogan)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2023, 11:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/timeseries-jl-package-some-information-missing-from-documentation/94485/6 "2023-03-09T11:44:44Z")

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For me also looks fine. I can install it.
