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Hi R-expert, If I have this daily rainfall data, how do call a particular day? Year,Month,Day,Amount 1900,12,22,1.3 1900,12,23,0 1900,12,24,0 1900,12,25,0 1900,12,26,0 1900,12,27,0 1900,12,28,0 1900,12,29,4.8 1900,12,30,0.3 1900,12,31,0.5 1901,1,1,0 1901,1,2,3 1901,1,3,0 1901,1,4,0.5 1901,1,5,0 1901,1,6,0 ... I used to use julian.date in S-Plus. Thank you so much for your kind attention and help.

Having to collect hourly electricity loads and quarter-of-an-hour electricity production data for some years I think that the tidiest way of doing it is to resort to ts but I don't know how to define such a frequency starting from a set date. Leafing through r-help mail archives I've found this *ALMOST* satisfactory message: ==========================================================

Dear all I try to make hourly average by cut() function, which almost works as *I* expected. What puzled me is that if there is only one item at the end of your data it results in NA. Example will explain what I mean datum<-seq(ISOdate(2004,8,31), ISOdate(2004,9,1), "min") cut(datum[1370:1381],"hour", labels=F) [1] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 NA