head(master_1)
                   S_1
2010-03-03 00:00:00 2.8520
2010-03-03 00:30:00 2.6945
2010-03-03 01:00:00 2.5685
2010-03-03 01:30:00 2.3800
2010-03-03 02:00:00 2.2225
2010-03-03 02:30:00 2.0650

str(master_1)
An ‘xts’ object from 2010-03-03 to 2010-05-25 08:30:00 containing:
  Data: num [1:4000, 1] 2.85 2.69 2.57 2.38 2.22 ...
 - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
  ..$ : NULL
  ..$ : chr "S_1"
  Indexed by objects of class: [POSIXt,POSIXct] TZ:
  Original class: 'zoo'
  xts Attributes:
List of 1
 $ dateFormat: chr "Date"

head(test1)
                       S_1
2010-03-03 00:00:00 2.8520
2010-03-03 00:30:00 2.6945
2010-03-03 01:00:00 2.5685
2010-03-03 01:30:00 2.3800
2010-03-03 02:00:00 2.2225
2010-03-03 02:30:00 2.0650

str(test1)
'data.frame': 4000 obs. of  1 variable:
 $ S_1: num  2.85 2.69 2.57 2.38 2.22 ...

data.frame(date=index(master_1), coredata(master_1))

library(xts)
set.seed(1)    # for reproducible example
master_1 <- xts(rnorm(10,mean=2,sd=0.1),as.POSIXct("2010-03-03")+30*(0:9))

library(ggplot2)
df <- fortify(master_1)
head(df)
#                  Index master_1
# 1  2010-03-03 00:00:00 1.937355
# 2  2010-03-03 00:00:30 2.018364
# 3  2010-03-03 00:01:00 1.916437
# 4  2010-03-03 00:01:30 2.159528
# 5  2010-03-03 00:02:00 2.032951
# 6  2010-03-03 00:02:30 1.917953

as.data.table(master_1)

library(xts)
example(xts)
x = head(sample.xts)
datefield = index(x)
newdf = data.frame(x,datefield)

myDF <- as.data.frame(as.matrix(myXTS))