[R] Time format lagging issue

jeremiah rounds
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 22:04:25 -0000

Building on Don's example here is something that looks a lot like what I do
every day:
Sys.setenv(TZ="UTC")
mydf <- data.frame(t1=c('2011-12-31-22-30',
'2011-12-31-23-30'))
library(lubridate)
mydf$timestamp = lubridate::ymd_hm(mydf$t1)
mydf$t2 = mydf$timestamp - period(minute=30)



On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 2:44 PM, MacQueen, Don <macqueen1 at llnl.gov>
wrote:

> Try following this example:
>
> mydf <- data.frame(t1=c('201112312230', '201112312330'))
> tmp1 <- as.POSIXct(mydf$t1, format='%Y%m%d%H%M')
> tmp2 <- tmp1 - 30*60
> mydf$t2 <- format(tmp2, '%Y%m%d%H%M')
>
> It can be made into a single line, but I used intermediate variables tmp1
> and tmp2 so that it would be easier to follow.
>
> Base R is more than adequate for this task.
>
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> Don MacQueen
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> On 8/31/16, 9:07 AM, "R-help on behalf of Bhaskar Mitra"
> <r-help-bounces at r-project.org on behalf of bhaskar.kolkata at
gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Hello Everyone,
> >
> >I am trying a shift the time series in a dataframe (df) by 30 minutes .
My
> >current format looks something like this :
> >
> >
> >
> >*df$$Time 1*
> >
> >
> >*201112312230*
> >
> >*201112312300*
> >
> >*201112312330*
> >
> >
> >
> >*I am trying to add an additional column of time (df$Time 2) next to
Time
> >1 by lagging it by ? 30minutes. Something like this :*
> >
> >
> >*df$Time1                   **df$$Time2*
> >
> >
> >*201112312230          **201112312200*
> >
> >*201112312300          **201112312230*
> >
> >*201112312330          **201112312300*
> >
> >*201112312330          *
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >*Based on some of the suggestions available, I have tried this option *
> >
> >
> >
> >*require(zoo)*
> >
> >*df1$Time2  <- lag(df1$Time1, -1, na.pad = TRUE)*
> >
> >*View(df1)*
> >
> >
> >
> >*This does not however give me the desired result. I would appreciate
any
> >suggestions/advice in this regard.*
> >
> >
> >*Thanks,*
> >
> >*Bhaskar*
> >
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