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2008 Aug 01
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chron objects: input/output
...method 1
> library(chron)
> chron(substring(x,1,10),substring(x,12))
[1] (07/01/01 12:00:00) (07/17/01 15:00:00)
## method 2 (recently inspired by Gabor's post)
> do.call(c,strapply(x,"(.*) (.*)",chron,backref=-2))
[1] (07/01/01 12:00:00) (07/17/01 15:00:00)
## method 3
> (chronObj <- as.chron(strptime(x,"%m/%d/%Y %T")))
[1] (07/01/01 12:00:00) (07/17/01 15:00:00)
Could there be any gotchas with the third method
(as.chron(strptime(...)))? The 'tz' attribute for POSIXlt objects are
ignored, but I am not sure if there are any implications of the
'$isd...