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I wrote the date package long ago, and it has been useful. In my current task of reunifying the R (Tom Lumley) and Splus (me) code trees for survival, I'm removing the explicit dependence on 'date' objects from the expected survival routines so that they better integrate. Comparison of 'date' to 'Date' has raised a couple of questions. Clearly Date is more

Hello - This is not a real problem, just an annoyance. Sometimes, but not always, I get a set of strange warnings from hist(). Example follows. ############################ #Produce a histogram of start dates for a set of field measurements. # I didn't reproduce all the dates, because not sure it's relevant, but here's a sample. # Note the invalid date in the fifth element. >

In some cases, incorrect results are produced by the code below intended to calculate the number of days between 2 dates. The year in question was a leap year. Note the results for 2004-04-04 and 2004-04-05 are the same! They should be 37 and 38 respectively. > as.integer(as.POSIXct("2004-04-02") - as.POSIXct("2004-02-27")) [1] 35 >

I can't seem to get a histogram of dates: tmt910% R --vanilla R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13) Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 ... > temp <- as.Date(1:200, origin="1970/01/01") > range(temp) [1] "1970-01-02" "1970-07-20" > hist(temp) Error in .Internal(inherits(x, what, which)) : 'x' is missing

Hi list, Could someone explain to me why the following result is not a integer? > difftime(strptime("24NOV2004", format="%d%b%Y"), strptime("13MAY2004", >format="%d%b%Y"), units="days") Time difference of 195.0417 days I'm using R2.12.0 on WinXP. Thanks! ...Tao

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

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 <-

I just encountered another RTFM problem: With diff(as.POSIXct(...), ...) I was unable to control the units of the results. Examples: > (d.d <- diff(as.POSIXct(c('2012-12-12', '2012-12-13')))) Time difference of 1 days > (d.h <- diff(as.POSIXct(c('2012-12-12 08:00', '2012-12-12 09:00')))) Time difference of 1 hours > (d.m <-

I received a warning about incompatible methods that I don't understand. The workaround in this example is simple. What is the reason that these methods are seen as incompatible? Is there some dangerous consequence of my as.numeric() workaround? Can a fix to the code base, perhaps similar to my workaround, make this warning no longer necessary? I am using R 2.7.0 on Windows. version.string R

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

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R developers, The "tzone" attribute is stripped from a POSIXct object when the subscript command is called ("[.POISXct"). This results in dates being printed in the locale specific format after a subscript operation is applied to a POSIXct object which has cause several problems for me in the past. Here is an example of this problem under R 1.9.1: > x <-

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:

Hello all, I am manipulating a large database with 70,000 records. "strptime" generates a date variable but R treats some of the values as NA. I attach a simple example below. I have spent hours on this problem. Any hint would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Edwin Sun # =======start of sample code ============= > x <- c("2005-04-02 19:03:00", "2005-04-03

Hello all, I've 2 strings that representing the start and end values of a date and time. For example, time1 <- c("21/04/2005","23/05/2005","11/04/2005") time2 <- c("15/07/2009", "03/06/2008", "15/10/2005") as.difftime(time1,time2) Time differences in secs [1] NA NA NA attr(,"tzone") [1] "" How can i

Forum, I've got hourly data for roughly 5 months of time that I want to subset into successive weeks. The first two elements of the dataset are well.80.2$date[1] >[1] 6/12/2000 2:00 >9256 Levels: 10/1/2001... well.80.2$date[2] >[1] 6/12/2000 3:00 >9256 Levels: 10/1/2001.... and so on until mid-october. I've been able to add 1 week the first element with the following:

Dear all, I have two variables which contents are date() function answers, like: d1<-date() d2<-date() Now I need to compute the difference between d2 and d1 (in minutes). Any help are welcome. Best wishes miltinho brazil [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi R Community: I want to take the difference in two dates: dt2 - dt1. But, I want the answer in months between those 2 dates. Can you advise me? Please respond to: pzs6 at cdc.gov Thank you! Phil Smith Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Hello R Help, I'm working in a project with a software that register date and time data in serial time format. This format is used by excel, for exemple. In this format, 40597.3911423958 is 2011/2/23 09:23:15. First part is number os days since 1900/1/1, and second part is a fraction of a day. I need to make this transformation in R, and use it to make some algebrian operations. I found that

Hi everybody. I have a dataframe that contains a factor with the date information in the format like in the example below: "2009/05/12 11:22:31 AM" I have been able to convert it to POSIXt using strptime Now I want to print only the date as one vector and the time in another vector but they must be real date and time classes so that i can use them in calculations to reconstruct my