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Dear Listers, I have encountered a strange problem using diff() and POSIXt: dts<-c("15/4/2003","15/7/2003","15/10/2003","15/04/2004","15/07/2004","15/10/2004","15/4/2005","15/07/2005","15/10/2005","15/4/2006") dts <- strptime(dts, "%d/%m/%Y") class(dts) [1] "POSIXt"

Dear Listers, I have encountered a strange problem using diff() and POSIXt: dts<-c("15/4/2003","15/7/2003","15/10/2003","15/04/2004","15/07/2004","15/10/2004","15/4/2005","15/07/2005","15/10/2005","15/4/2006") dts <- strptime(dts, "%d/%m/%Y") class(dts) [1] "POSIXt"

Hi. This feels like a bug to me, or at least an undocumented feature, but I thought I'd see what people here thought of it. Consider a POSIXlt object like this one: > a <- as.POSIXlt ("2011-01-23 12:45:45") > class (a) [1] "POSIXlt" "POSIXt" Fine. Now, if I do some arithmetic on that object, the result is converted to POSIXct. > class (a

When I try to do linear interpolation between financial contracts with maturities on different dates in different months I have come across some behavior I haven't seen before. I have a data frame in R which is loaded from an access database so I can't provide a working example. It was loaded using this code: > dbPath <- "H:/pathToDB/DB.mdb" > channel <-

The following code: cut(as.POSIXct("2009-11-01 04:00:00", tz="America/Los_Angeles"), "1 day") gives the error: Error in seq.int(0, to - from, by) : 'to' must be finite This is related to November 1st, 2009 being the switchover date from daylight savings time to standard time in the America/Los_Angeles time zone. In particular, in cut.POSIXt, the starting

Hello, I searched the archives but could not come to a solution. I have to two columns of information t_start_cdt looks like: > t_start_cdt[1:4] [1] "2003-07-09 11:02:25" "2003-07-09 11:10:25" "2003-07-09 11:30:25" [4] "2003-07-09 12:00:25" > class(t_start_cdt) [1] "POSIXt" "POSIXlt" t_end_cdt looks like: > t_end_cdt[1:4]

Hy all, I'm plotting graphs using plot() function, they are on X axes POSIX dates: "POSIXt" "oldClass" "POSIXct" "POSIXlt" I can't figure out why sometimes it prints the month and days and sometimes it prints the unix timestamp. It appens usually when the xlim is short like only some days. xlim is settled as a POSIXt like this "2006-12-30

cut.Date and cut.POSIXt indicate that the breaks argument can be an integer followed by a space followed by "year", etc. but it seems the integer is ignored. For example, I assume that breaks = "3 months" is supposed to cut it into quarters but, in fact, it cuts it into months as if 3 had not been there. > d <- seq(Sys.Date(), length = 12, by = "month") >

In trying to use as.Date(), I've come across the conversion of POSIXlt to POSIXct when a POSIXlt variable is included in a data frame: my_POSIX <- strptime(c("11-09-2006", "11-10-2006", "11-11-2006", "11-12-2006", "11-13-2006"), "%m-%d-%Y") str(my_POSIX) my_Date <- as.Date(my_POSIX) str(my_Date) data <- format(my_Date)

Hi, Matplot works with x being Date class but not POSIXt. Here is the example with R version 2.5.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-12-06 r40129) Example: x <- Sys.Date() - c(1:10) y <- cbind(1:10, 10:1) class(x) ## [1] "Date" matplot(x, y) x <- strptime(as.character(x), format="%Y-%m-%d") ## [1] "POSIXt" "POSIXlt" matplot(x, y) Error in

Dear useRs, How come the first attempt to sort a POSIXt vector fails (Error: non-atomic type in greater), while the second succeeds? (Code inserted below.) The documentation says that POSIXt is used to allow operations such as subtraction, so I'd expect sorting to work. Is this perhaps an OS issue? (I run R 2.0.1 on Win xp.) Thank you, b. #------------code test <- c("2005-02-08

Hi, I have two data sources. One records time in PST time zone, the other in GMT. I want to compute the difference between the two, but don't see how. Here is an example where I compute time difference between identical times each (meant to be) relative to its time zone. > as.POSIXlt("2000-05-10 10:15:00", "PST") - as.POSIXlt("2000-05-10 10:15:00",

Hi, Does anybody know why get I this kind of strange situation: Browse[2]> hcEnd [1] "2009-03-29 06:30:00" Browse[2]> class(hcEnd) [1] "POSIXlt" "POSIXt" Browse[2]> is.na(hcEnd) [1] TRUE This issue is the source of my all issues in my program, Thanks for your help -- View this message in context:

I have a problem ordering by descending magnitude a POSIXt object. Can someone help please and let me know how to work around this. My goal is to be able to order my data by DATE and then by descending TIME. I have tried to include as much info as possible below. The problem stems from trying to read in times from a CSV file. I have converted the character time values to a POSIXt object using the

Hi, I'm having trouble understanding how trunc is operating on vectors of POSIXlt objects. Why does dates[1:4] in the last line return a bunch of NAs even though dates look like it has all the right elements? This worries me that something is off with my use of trunc. Is trunc not suppose to be vectorized with POSIXlt? If not, then how should I truncate a bunch of POSIXlt objects? I'm

Arrays of POSIXlt dates always return a length of 9. This is correct (they're really lists of vectors of seconds, hours, and so forth), but other methods disguise them as flat vectors, giving superficially surprising behaviour: strings <- paste('2009-1-', 1:31, sep='') dates <- strptime(strings, format="%Y-%m-%d") print(dates) # [1]

Times from seq.POSIXt come out wrong in AEST timezone around Feb 29 every leap year before 1970 (on Windows XP). According to help(DateTimeClasses), this is handled by "our own C code". > x <- as.POSIXct("1968-02-27") # tz="AEST" > x.gmt <- as.POSIXct("1968-02-27", tz="GMT") > data.frame( GMT=seq(x.gmt, by="day",

# hi all, # I'm trying to plot temperatures by date in a trellis plot by their stations # I'm plotting the following data.frame library(lattice) h <- structure(list(station_name = structure(c(3L, 4L, 2L, 10L, 11L, 12L, 6L, 7L, 5L, 8L, 9L, 3L, 4L, 2L, 10L, 11L, 12L, 6L, 7L, 5L, 8L, 9L, 3L, 4L, 2L, 10L, 11L, 12L, 6L, 7L), .Label = c("Ashqelon", "Beer Sheva",

Hello, I found rather surprising the behaviour of POSIXct and POSIXlt classes when combined with min and tapply. The details can be deduced from the script below: ############# Start of the script #################### before <- Sys.time() Sys.sleep( 1 ) now1 <- now2 <- Sys.time() my.times <- c( before, now1, now2 ) class( my.times ) ## [1] "POSIXct"

Full_Name: Mario Luoni Version: 2.10.0 OS: Windows XP HE SP3 Submission from: (NULL) (217.194.59.134) This piece of code: zzz1 <- as.POSIXct("1999-03-18", tz="CET") zzz2 <- as.POSIXlt("1999-03-18", tz="CET") zzz1 == zzz2 as.Date(zzz1) as.Date(zzz2) yields TRUE for "zzz1==zzz2", but the two dates returned by as.Date are different: >