similar to: strptime problems

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 stephen@anc.ed.ac.uk wrote: > Hi, > > The help file for strptime has the following code which doesn't work > for me: > > ## read in date info in format `ddmmmyyyy' > x <- c("1jan1960", "2jan1960", "31mar1960", "30jul1960") > z <- strptime(x, "%d%b%Y") > > z > [1]

Hi all; I've already send a similar e-mail to the list and Prof. Brian Ripley answered me but my doubts remain unresolved. Thanks for the clarification, but perhaps I wasn't clear enough in posting my questions. I've got a postgres database which I read into R. The first column is Timestamp with timezone, and my data are already in UTC format. An 'printed' extract of R

R offers a bewildering array of options when it comes to representing dates and times (e.g, as.Date, chron, strptime, zoo, etc). Can anybody recommend a document that compares the relative merit of each method? I'm not looking for help with any one method, but rather a guide that describes which method is best for a particular data analysis/plotting goal. Thanks, Jake [[alternative

Hello, I have large zoo objects (about 100 or more time series merged next to eachother). Example: X05.Oct.99 X05.Nov.99 X05.Dec.99 X05.Jan.00 X05.Feb.00 X05.Mar.00 X05.Apr.00 X05.May.00 X05.Jun.00 [1,] 5649.3 5679.4 5679.4 5679.4 5679.4 5679.4 5679.4 5679.4 5679.4 [2,] 5682.7 5719.2 5719.2 5719.2 5719.2 5719.2 5719.2

Dear All, I am trying to convert to POSIXct after pasting a date and a time in character format with strptime. It is probably obvious but I don't understand why I get an error message after bsamp$spltime<-strptime(test,format="%d-%B-%y %H:%M") whereas I can get what I want if I do it in 2 steps and rbinding ? Thanks and best regards, Jean-Louis This is the R console output

Hi Gabor and everybody; Thanks Gabor, with the alternative step you've told me the problem is resolved. Comparing the two procedures: Extract from the source 'character' data: > rain$ts[2039:2046] [1] "25/03/2000 22:00:00 UTC" "25/03/2000 23:00:00 UTC" [3] "26/03/2000 00:00:00 UTC" "26/03/2000 01:00:00 UTC" [5] "26/03/2000 02:00:00

Folks, I'm having trouble with how datetime objects with time zones are set and plotted. This may be the result of my running R (2.4.0) on a Windoze XP box. Perhaps not. Here are two example problems I need advise on if you have time: 1) I collect data with dates (often as a fractional day of year) in UTC. Using strptime to create date time objects appears to force the data into

Hi. I frequently convert date and time data to and from character representations. I'm frustrated with chron, because 'seconds' are required to create a time object (my input data never has seconds). More importantly, I cannot make chron print the format 12/30/2006 (which my output data requires). I really like the format flexibility of strftime() and strptime(), but of course

Hello R List - I have to import Excel files (either as .csv files or using RODBC) into R (2.4.1, Windows) and operate on dates and times (e.g. find minutes between times, change dates to days of week or analyze by weeks of year). The help files for format.Date, strptime, as.POSIX, DateTimeClasses, etc. etc. are informative but perhaps a little terse. I have googled unsuccessfully for a more

Dear R users, I have a problem computing time differences using R. I have a date that are given using the following format: 20080620.00, where the 4 first digits represent the year, the next 2 ones the month and the last 2 ones the day. I would need to compute time differences between two vectors of this given format. I tried around trying to change this format into any type of time serie

Hi, The help file for strptime has the following code which doesn't work for me: ## read in date info in format `ddmmmyyyy' x <- c("1jan1960", "2jan1960", "31mar1960", "30jul1960") z <- strptime(x, "%d%b%Y") > z [1] "NA" "NA" "NA" "NA" Do these work for other people?

Hi This code should explain what I'm trying to do > strptime("30-Jan-08", "%d-%b-%y") [1] "2008-01-30" > > format(strptime("30-Jan-08", "%d-%b-%y") , "%b-%y") [1] "Jan-08" > > strptime(format(strptime("30-Jan-08", "%d-%b-%y") , "%b-%y") , "%b-%y") [1] NA I have a

Hi All In trying to correlate some tide gauge data I need to deal with varying timezones. From the documentation on strptime, it seemed that the tz variable might have some effect on the conversion, but I'm not seeing an effect. > strptime("20061201 1:02 PST",format="%Y%m%d %H:%M",tz="PST")+0 [1] "2006-12-01 01:02:00 EST" >

Hi R Devel, I just ran into a corner case with 'strptime'. Recall that the "%OS" conversion accepts fractional seconds: > strptime("17_35_14.01234.mp3","%H_%M_%OS.mp3")$sec [1] 14.01234 Unfortunately for my application it seems to be "greedy", in that it tries to parse a decimal point which might belong to the rest of the format: >

Hi, I am having a trouble parsing dates using strptime() that I get in the format of year and week number. The data looks like this "201127" which means year 2011 and week 27. I would like to graph this using ggplot but then I get a gap between 201054 and 201101 so I thought I would just easily convert it. I tried to use strptime and as.Date and the format string of %Y%W but it seems

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 08:13:21PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 10 January 2017 at 17:48, frederik at ofb.net wrote: > | Hi R Devel, > | > | I just ran into a corner case with 'strptime'. Recall that the "%OS" > | conversion accepts fractional seconds: > | > | > strptime("17_35_14.01234.mp3","%H_%M_%OS.mp3")$sec > |

Converting date strings that range between Mar-14-2010 2:00 and Mar-14-2010 2:59 (inclusive) to date objects (POSIX) returns a NA entity: > strptime("3/14/2010 2:00",format="%m/%d/%Y %H:%M") [1] "2010-03-14 02:00:00" This looks fine, however other functions such as plot see a NA object instead: > is.na(strptime("3/14/2010

Full_Name: Bill Hutchison Version: 2.2.1 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (69.158.121.13) example(strptime) produces the following error: Error in strptime(x, "%d%b%Y") : 2 arguments passed to 'strptime' which requires 3 This error occurs wherever strptime is used. It does not occur in 2.2.0

Hi everyone, I have bunch of date and time observations in the format %Y-%m-%d %I %M %S %p. I used strptime() to read this format. But the problem is some of the times are in the format of %I %M %p, so for those times, strptime is giving me NA values. For example, strptime(paste("2009-04-08","1:49:47 PM"),format="%Y-%m-%d %I:%M:%S %p") [1] "2009-04-08

I'm sure this is just the result of a basic misunderstanding of the syntax of R, but I am stumped. A <- read.table(file="sumByThirtyMinute.csv",sep=",",col.names=c("date","pandl")) A now consists of thousands of rows, but A$date is a string... ... 3183 2006-02-28 12:00:00 548.470 3184 2006-02-28 12:30:00 515.240 3185 2006-02-28 13:00:00