creating time series for data sampled daily in R -

i don't understand how time series objects created in r. have data: data = c(101,99,97,95,93,91,89,87,85,83,81) (smaller dataset sake of brevity). data taken once every day 11 days starting 2016-07-05 2016-07-15. according docs, frequency data sampled daily should 7. not understand values start , end parameters. start, docs say: the time of first observation. either single number or vector of 2 integers, specify natural time unit , (1-based) number of samples time unit. not understand 1-based number of samples means. tried google didn't help.

if use 2016,7 start , end date, get:

time series: start = c(2016, 7)  end = c(2016, 7)  frequency = 7  [1] 101 

if use 2016,7,1 , 2016,7,11 start , end date, still same output.

what doing wrong?

i think best way switch xts or zoo, since according question here, ts() struggles daily observations, since number of days varies between years.