[R] Date object

David Winsemius
Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:52:25 -0000

On Apr 21, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Veerappa Chetty wrote:

> HI,
> I have to work with data objects. I have trouble. I would like to
> convert
> date to a integer of Julian dates omitting hours, minutes etc. I
> tried as.
> Date and also as.POSIXlt, ct etc.
>
> Please help me to compute the following difference. I get an "NA"
for
> output.
>
> 1/14/2006 0:00:00 AM -1/9/2006 0:00:00 AM

I didn't realize this until I started experimenting with your example,
but there is no 0 hour that is recognized by strptime when using the
am/pm time format:

 > strptime("1/14/2006 0:01:01 AM", format ="%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S
%p")
[1] NA
 > strptime("1/14/2006 12:01:01 AM", format ="%m/%d/%Y
%I:%M:%S %p")
[1] "2006-01-14 00:01:01"


If you want to offer a reproducible example of your data (not just
console output we can do more with it.) I suggest you take you vector
and offer the output of dput() on it.

--
David.
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> Thanks.
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David Winsemius, MD
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