[R] Time format lagging issue

MacQueen, Don
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 21:44:38 -0000

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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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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