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Peter et al Thanks for the comments on dates. Some of the respondents missed the point, by showing ways that I could work around the problems, when my main argument is that one shouldn't have to work around problems. So I hereto present round 2 of the debate. 1 Postulates a. In my 35 year computing experience, I think that nothing frustrates me more than a computer program that

Hello, I was hoping for advice regarding resolving the above error. I have a csv file that contains the following variable: $ Order.Made.Date : Factor w/ 299 levels "1-Apr-08","1-Aug-05",..: 278 285 91 286 159 132 108 261 282 147 ... I want to calculate a variable named F.length, which is today's date minus the values contained in the variable:

Full_Name: Michael Jacob Version: 1.4.1 OS: Windows 2000 SP2 Submission from: (NULL) (195.27.237.226) Hi, there seems to be a bug in julian(): > Sys.getlocale() [1] "LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252" > julian(Sys.time()) Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a

Dear R list: I modelled changes in a variable (mconc) over time (d) for individuals (replicate) given one of three treatments (treatment) using: mconc.lme <- lme(mconc~treatment*poly(d,2), random=~poly(d,2)|replicate, data=my.data) summary(mconc.lme) shows that the linear coefficient of one of the treatments is significantly different to zero, viz. Value Std.Error

Dear All, I wonder how to compute the age from the date of birth and the date of examination. Suppose that have the following data: df <- as.data.frame(rbind(c(1,"10/08/1950","15/03/1998"), c(1,"10/08/1950","20/07/1998"), c(1,"10/08/1950","23/10/1998"))) names(df) <- c("ID", "date_birth",

Buenas tardes a todos los participantes del foro. Me dirijo a vosotros porque estoy atascado con una duda de programación respecto al data frame: > dd # Data frame de 5 variables, leído de un archivo txt id sexo nacim origen final 1 1 0 02/09/1955 01/04/1985 01/02/2014 2 2 1 29/10/1951 15/08/1996 01/05/2009 3 3 0 30/10/1942 02/08/2000 01/02/2014 4 4 1

I am trying to extract only the winters (defined to be 01-Dec through 28-Feb) of daily data from 1948-2002. There are 90 days in each winter season. I wrote the following code to gather the winter dates into a single vector: DJF <- NULL for(year in 1949:1999) { temp.begin <- strptime(paste("01/12", year-1, sep="/"), "%d/%m/%Y") temp.end <-

Hello, As the 2.7 branch doesn''t seem to be available for RHEL4 (yes I know EOS next week) am trying to use a 2.6.11 client for our new Puppet infrastructure to replace the creaking one we have now. The POC setup is all running behind an F5 with a pair of CA''s and seperate pool of Puppet Masters. RHEL5/6 clients running 2.7.9 work fine. The older version on RHEL4 gives me SSL

If you apply the "max" function to a vector of class "difftime" with units="days", the returned value is in units of "seconds". Is this not a bug? At any rate it can lead to confusing results if one buries a call to "max" deep in some data analysis code. Details: > y<-structure(1, class = "difftime", units = "days")

Since both comparison and negation are well-defined for time differences, I wonder why abs and division are not defined for class difftime. This behavior is clearly documented on the man page: "limited arithmetic is available on 'difftime' objects"; but why? Both are natural, semantically sound, and useful operations and I see no obvious reason that they should give an error:

Since both comparison and negation are well-defined for time differences, I wonder why abs and division are not defined for class difftime. This behavior is clearly documented on the man page: "limited arithmetic is available on 'difftime' objects"; but why? Both are natural, semantically sound, and useful operations and I see no obvious reason that they should give an error:

Hi, I am trying to take difference of two time objects. I want to fix the result's unit to minutes. How can I do that? Here is an example: > difftime(x, y) Time difference of 2.030720 hours > difftime(x, z) Time difference of 30.34672 mins where x = '2007-03-05 08:32:58' y = '2007-03-05 06:31:07' and z = '2007-03-05 08:02:37' How can I get answer

I have just become painfully aware that objects of class "difftime", generated by the difference of two POSIXct objects, carry a "units" attribute, which flashes by when the object is printed, for example. The pain was occasioned when I tried to turn these objects into numberic objects for use elsewhere as a covariate. as.numeric(difftime object) simply turns off the units

Hi All, I have an script in R which accepts user inputs for certain parameters, particularly dates, which the user inputs as character strings. eg: > date1 <- "2009-01-21" The script later parses the input via the as.Date function: > as.Date(date1) However, as.Date encounters an error when the string does not represent an actual date. eg: > date1 <-

On the help page "DateTimeClasses {base}" it says: "One can add or subtract a number of seconds or a difftime object from a date-time object, but not add two date-time objects." However, > x<-Sys.time(); y<-Sys.time()+3600 > diff<-y-x > x; y; diff [1] "2005-11-23 19:58:20 GMT" [1] "2005-11-23 20:58:20 GMT" Time difference of 1 hours

R-listers, I have noticed several posts on issues with difftime producing NA's but they have been for older versions of R. Here's the issue associated with difftime that I am dealing with in R 2.12.2. > preciptime = strptime("01/10/2007 14:00",format="%m/%d/%Y %H:%M") > class(preciptime) [1] "POSIXlt" "POSIXt" > # Now using difftime, this

I am trying to write S4 methods with "difftime" in the signature but am being "informed" (? not a warning or error) that "difftime" is not a class. Nevertheless, dispatch takes place. Should I simply ignore that "information"? Here is a toy example: > setClass("foo", contains = "Date") > setMethod("+", c("foo",

Hi I just started using RGui.exe under widnows. I have a text file containing date arranged in columns and rows, each column has the same format, each row with different formats. 3 of the columns are something like this 1/12/2006 3:59:45 PM I need to calculate the different in seconds between 2 selected periods using their row’s index My solution: Read the file in a data frame and

Hello! you, Emil Bode <emil.bode at dans.knaw.nl>, wrote on Tuesday, July 31, 2018 1:55 PM: > Some of the changes you're proposing could be made (with effort), but note that you're not > restricted to providing strings with a format. > What you're trying to do can be accomplished with as.difftime(12, units='weeks'), see also > ?as.difftime > > Or if

Colleagues, I submitted this several days ago and no one responded, so I am trying again, trying a different subject line: I just encountered some unexpected behavior of difftime in relationship to the change from daylight savings to standard time. My understanding is that DST and ST take effect at 2AM. However, the results below suggests that R (version 2.8.0 in OS X) implements the