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Hi , I was trying to use link_to along with image_tag to setup a link that would open in an external window. But I was unable to make a link using both text & an image So my current workaround looks like this inside a partial where link is http://foo.com & text would be descriptive <img src="images/arrow.gif" border="0"/> <%= link_to(text, link, :popup

Hello, I am a complete newbie with Ruby and Rails. I am working on learning it by writing a project I was going to write in PHP using Rails. I am having a difficult time finding clear information on how I would do this. I need to take a date out of a table in my database and given another day calculate the next 28 day anniversery of the original date. This is used to calculate a delivery

Hi all, Is there a simple function already implemented for getting the ISO weeks of a Date object? I couldn't find one, and so wrote my own function to do it, but would appreciate a pointer to the "default" way. If a function is not yet implemented, could the code below be of interest to submit to CRAN? Best Regards, Gustaf --------------------

Dear R-users, I use unlist of POSIX dates to extract the year, hour etc. With that I can search for files in my database which are in the form 'yyyymmddhh_synops.txt' However, I get stucked during midnight where unlist just gives NA's. The script is given below, the problem accurs at acc.period[16] (midnight). However when I write out the character, unlist works well. But

Wanted to raise two questions: 1. Is bugs.r-project.org down? I haven't been able to reach it for two or three days: ``` ping bugs.r-project.org PING rbugs.research.att.com (207.140.168.137): 56 data bytes Request timeout for icmp_seq 0 Request timeout for icmp_seq 1 Request timeout for icmp_seq 2 Request timeout for icmp_seq 3 Request timeout for icmp_seq 4 Request timeout for icmp_seq 5

Hi, I have a dataframe column of the form v<-c("Fri Feb 05 20:00:01.43000 2010","Fri Feb 05 20:00:02.274000 2010","Fri Feb 05 20:00:02.274000 2010","Fri Feb 05 20:00:06.34000 2010") I need to convert this to datetime form. I did the following.. lapply(v,function(x){strptime(x, "%a %b %d %H:%M:%OS %Y")}) This gives me a list that looks like

Have you noticed any problems with big dates (>=1/1/2040) in R? Here is the bit of code that I'm having trouble with: > test.date <- strptime("1/1/2040",format="%m/%d/%Y") > > unlist(test.date) sec min hour mday mon year wday yday isdst 0 0 0 1 0 140 0 0 0 > > date.plus.one <- as.POSIXct(test.date) +

date <- as.POSIXlt(Sys.time()) #present date for (i in 1:difftime(as.POSIXlt(Sys.Date()),"2007-10-01")) if (date$wday != 0 & date$wday != 6) {print(date);assign("date", (date-86400))} else (assign("date", (date-86400))) I am trying to print dates from present day to a day in the past, but omitting weekends. I am not doing something right, but can't

Gabor, Thanks much. Your solution is elegant. My overall scheme is to take present date, and check whether it is a weekend, if not, then create a string based on the date, to concatenate into a url link for download.file( ). The files I need to download have a part which is in the format: mmddyy. I am working to make myself a system to connect to exchanges, and download end of day files from

Dear all, I have a question related to the POSIXlt function in R. I have a set of dates and times, for exmaple: startx <- as.POSIXct("2011-01-01 00:00:00") finx <- as.POSIXct("2011-12-31 00:00:00") daysx<- seq(startx, finx, by="24 hours") I want to change the dates of all the days falling on a Saturday to the next working day (i.e. Monday). So I

I have the code for computing a weekly event: (start_date..end_date).select{|d| d.wday == wday} but I am wondering if anyone has any ideas for using this to figure out a recurring event for every other week. Is it possible to somehow specify every other within the .select method? Any other implementation ideas? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message

x = structure(list(date = structure(list(sec = c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), min = c(0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L), hour = c(0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L), mday = c(1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 8L, 9L, 10L, 11L, 12L, 15L, 16L, 17L, 18L, 19L, 22L, 23L, 24L,

Can someone, please, explain the difference is results below (notice the isdst value) > unlist(as.POSIXlt('2005-7-1')) sec min hour mday mon year wday yday isdst 0 0 0 1 6 105 5 181 1 > unlist(as.POSIXlt(as.Date('2005-7-1'))) sec min hour mday mon year wday yday isdst 0 0 0 1 6 105 5 181 0

I am trying to download a bunch of files from a server, for which I am using download.file( ) within a for loop. The script is working fine except until download.file hits a URL which has no file, at which point it exits. I want to change this behavior to simple log the failure and maintain state within the for loop and iterate to next. I read about try / tryCatch but am having trouble

Hi! I''ve just a created a really simple rails scheduled worker for backgroundrb to start playing with : class SessionCleanerWorker < BackgrounDRb::Worker::RailsBase def do_work(args) logger.info "SessionCleaner> started" CGI::Session::ActiveRecordStore::Session.destroy_all( [''updated_at <?'', 120.minutes.ago] )

Full_Name: Petr Simecek Version: 2.5.1, 2.6.1 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (195.113.231.2) Several times I have experienced that a length of a POSIXt vector has not been computed right. Example: tv<-structure(list(sec = c(50, 0, 55, 12, 2, 0, 37, NA, 17, 3, 31 ), min = c(1L, 10L, 11L, 15L, 16L, 18L, 18L, NA, 20L, 22L, 22L ), hour = c(12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, NA, 12L,

Hey guys, I was playing with the cron trigger, and I noticed that wday is not honored. Looking at the code confirms this. Has anyone else seen this? Thanks Adam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel/attachments/20071217/44d3a8a6/attachment.html

Hello, I need to create a dataframe containing all possible combinations of three variables: SITE (101,102,103,104), WDAY (MON,TUE,WED,THR,FRI), and TOD (MORN, AFTN). There should be a total of 40 unique combinations in my dataframe. I used expand.grid() successfully(?) to create my dataframe, but then when I went to order it by SITE, the resultant dataframe only contained four rows, one for each

Hey everybody, I''ve got a model that represents kind of a turn-based games. Certain actions can only be made unders certain conditions. For simplicity, we''ll say that the only condition for a particular action is that the weekday be Tuesday. def add_vote raise ''You cannot vote today'' unless Date.today.wday == 2 ... end In my controller I want to show a

Dear R-Gurus I have a data frame (from CSV file) which has its first column called Date. The Date is in the format mm/dd/yyyy. I was trying to get the weekday for these dates and I tried using wday() and day.of.week() functions and both of them gave me precisely the wrong answers. I think the issue lies in the proper formatting of dates. The class of this column is a factor class and hence I