subsetting in xts using a parameter holding dates

Question

I am familiar with the xts subsetting abilities. However, I can\'t find an elegant way to subset a parameterized range of dates. something like this:

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Answer 1

from the help of [.xts {xts}

As xts uses POSIXct time representations of all user-level index classes internally, the fastest timeBased subsetting will always be from POSIXct objects, regardless of the indexClass of the original object.

So you can do subsetting timeBased like this :

xts.obj[seq(start.date,end.date,by=60)]
                    [,1]
2012-11-03 09:45:00    1