Remove 'fts' package (archived on 2022-05-09)

Author: joshuaulrich

DESCRIPTION

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Authors@R: c(
 Depends: zoo (>= 1.7-12)
 Imports: methods
 LinkingTo: zoo
-Suggests: timeSeries, timeDate, tseries, chron, fts, tis, RUnit
+Suggests: timeSeries, timeDate, tseries, chron, tis, RUnit
 LazyLoad: yes
 Description: Provide for uniform handling of R's different time-based data classes by extending zoo, maximizing native format information preservation and allowing for user level customization and extension, while simplifying cross-class interoperability.
 License: GPL (>= 2)

NAMESPACE

@@ -307,12 +307,6 @@ S3method(as.xts,timeSeries)
 # irts (package:tseries) specific methods
 S3method(as.xts,irts)
 
-# fts (package:fts) specific methods
-if (getRversion() >= "3.6.0") {
-  S3method(fts::as.fts, xts)
-}
-S3method(as.xts,fts)
-
 # Date specific methods
 S3method(as.xts,Date)
 

R/fts.R

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #   additional methods are in correspondingly named .R files
 #   current conversions include:
 #     timeSeries, its, irts, ts, matrix, data.frame, and zoo
-#     MISSING: fts, tis, fame
+#     MISSING: tis, fame
 #
 #  this file includes the main xts constructor as well as the reclass
 #  function.

R/xts.R

@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ function(pkg, generic, class, fun = NULL)
 #  }
   if (getRversion() < "3.6.0") {
     register_s3_method("timeSeries", "as.timeSeries", "xts")
-    register_s3_method("fts", "as.fts", "xts")
     if (utils::packageVersion("zoo") < "1.8.5") {
       # xts:::as.zoo.xts was copied to zoo:::as.zoo.xts in zoo 1.8-5
       register_s3_method("zoo", "as.zoo", "xts")

R/zzz.R

@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ objects into a uniform format for use within \R.
 
 It is possible with a call to \code{as.xts} to
 convert objects of class \code{timeSeries}, \code{ts}, \code{irts},
-\code{fts},
 \code{matrix}, \code{data.frame}, and \code{zoo}.
 
 \code{xtsible} safely checks whether an object can be converted to

inst/unitTests/runit.fts.R

@@ -5,10 +5,8 @@
 \alias{as.xts.xts}
 \alias{as.xts.zoo}
 \alias{as.xts.ts}
-\alias{as.xts.fts}
 \alias{as.xts.data.frame}
 \alias{as.xts.matrix}
-\alias{as.fts.xts}
 \title{ Convert Object To And From Class xts }
 \description{
 Conversion S3 methods to coerce data objects of
@@ -31,9 +29,6 @@ losing any attributes of the original format.
 
 \method{as.xts}{matrix}(x, order.by, dateFormat="POSIXct",
     frequency=NULL, ..., .RECLASS=FALSE) 
-
-
-as.fts.xts(x)
 }
 \arguments{
   \item{x}{ data object to convert. See details for supported types }