R: merge two irregular time series
I have two multivariate time series x and y, both covering approximately the same range in time (one starts two years before the other, but they end on the same date). Both series have missing observations in the form of empty columns next to the date column, and also in the sense that one of the series has several dates that are not found in the other, and vice versa. I would like to create a data frame (or similar) with a column that lists all the dates found in x OR y, without duplicate dates. For each date (row), I would like to horizontally stack the observations from x next to the