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Hi everybody, I am beginer in R and I need your precious help. I want to create a small function in R as in sas to retrieve date. I have a file with data that import in R. DATE PAYS nb_pays.ILI. 1 24/04/2009 usa 0 2 24/04/2009 usa 0 3 24/04/2009 Mexique 0 4 24/04/2009

Hi all, I'm having a little bit of trouble with some date conversions and am hoping someone can help me out. Thanks in advance. OK, I have two sources of data that provide date info in a csv file differently. I've attached a small zipped file with two text files that illustrate both. (Is it ok to send attachments to this list? Not sure. It's very small.) I need to be able to

I am trying to calculate the median of each row of a data frame where the data frame consist of columns of class Date. Below are my test data and best attempt at using apply. I didn't see a solution via Google or the Baron search site. I'd be grateful for any suggestions or solutions. I'm using R 2.0.0 on Mac OS X. Thank you, Stephen Weigand ### Test data date1 <- c(1000,

Hello all, Can somebody point me to references or provide some code on dealing with this date issue. Basically, I have two vectors of values that represent dates. I want to convert these values into a date format and subtract the differences to show elapsed time in days. More specifically, here is the example: Date1 Date2 032398 061585 032398 061585 111694 101994 111694

Hi, ?In the example you provided, it looks like the dates in Date2 happens first.? So, I changed it a bit.? DataA<- read.table(text=" ID,Status,Date1,Date2 ??? ??? ?????? 1,A,3-Feb-01,15-May-01 ??? ??? 1,B,15-May-01,16-May-01 ??? ??? 1,A,16-May-01,3-Sep-01 ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? 1,B,3-Sep-01,13-Sep-01 ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? 1,C,13-Sep-01,26-Feb-04 ??? ??? ??? ??? ???

Full_Name: Alexander L. Belikoff Version: 2.8.1 OS: Ubuntu 9.04 (x86_64) Submission from: (NULL) (67.244.71.200) I'm trying to reshape the following data frame: ID DATE1 DATE2 VALUE_TYPE VALUE 'abcd1233' 2009-11-12 2009-12-23 'TYPE1' 123.45 ... VALUE_TYPE is a string and is a factor with only 2 values

I am currently puzzled by a seach path behavior. I have a library of a dozen routines getlabs(), getssn(), getecg(), ... that interface to local repositories and pull back patient information. All have a the first 6 arguments in common, and immediately call a second routine to do initial processing of these 6. The functions "joe" and "fred" below capture the relevant

I searched for forum for something about this but couldn''t find anything. For example I have this in my view: (you enter start/end dates from dropdowns, pick a category and a report is generated.) <%= start_form_tag :action => ''display_report'' %> From: <%= date_select ''report'', ''date1'' %> <br /> To: <%=

Hi, I have a query about sqldf, and dates in general. I couldnt find much on the net or on the forums, hence I am here. Here is the issue: I want to write a function that accepts 3 arguments: date1, date2 and a dataframe, say 'df'. Within the function, I want to populate a temp dataframe which essentially contains the output of the query "select * from df where DATE between date1

i have a data frame with 2 columns of dates. with str(dataframe) i have ensured myself that they were indeed formatted as dates. one column has NA's in it. the aim is now to make a third column that chooses date1 if it is a date, and choose date2 if it is a NA. i am trying df$date3=ifelse(is.na(df$date1), df$date2, df$date1). this leads to unexpected behaviour: the resulting column is

Hi all, following sample code illustrates the problem : Date1 <- Date2 <- as.POSIXlt(seq.Date(as.Date("2010-04-01"),as.Date("2011-04-01"),by='day')) identical(Date1,Date2) all.equal(Date1,Date2) identical() gives the correct answer. As there is no all.equal method for POSIXlt objects, all.equal.list is used instead. Subsetting using [[]] doesn't work

hi, Is there an easy way of calculating the difference in months between two dates in a controller. thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I''m trying to use ParseDate within a for loop but I get this error: can''t dup NilClass Any suggestions for making this work? Thanks, -Jason

Folks: With the help of David L. Reiner, I've developed a function that computes the number of months between 2 dates, x and y. num.months <- function ( x , y ) { x <- as.Date( x ) y <- as.Date( y ) seeq <- seq(from=x , to=y , by="months") ans <- length( seeq ) - 1 if ( max( seeq) > y ) ans <- ans -1 ans } To ease your reading this function, I've

I wasn't even aware I was using midnightStandard. You won't find it in my script. Here is the relevant loop: date1 = timeDate(charvec = Sys.Date(), format = "%Y-%m-%d") date1 dow = 3; for (i in 1:length(V4) ) { x = read.csv(as.character(V4[[i]]), header = FALSE, na.strings=""); y = x[,1]; year = V2[[i]]; week = V3[[i]]; dtstr =

Hi there, I have data frame with columns ID and Date. There are multiple rows for each ID, but I only want to keep the *first* such row--i.e., the row corresponding to the earliest event. So if I had, say, 1000 rows of 100 IDs doing an average of ten events each, I'd run this trimming procedure and end up with a data frame containing 100 rows (one for each ID), where each row record that

Hi R users, I need your help to write a code in r that does the following calculation from three different datasets; ac = 1/sum (NPP from date 1 to date 2, dataset=1) * (biomass at date 2 -biomass at date 1, dataset = 2) + (littfall at date 2, dataset=3). all the dates are in yr-month-day format. Which library or function Should I use to tell R do these calculations of these variables at

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 <-

Hi, I wanted to learn how to solve a date and time manipulation where i can do the following two 1. difference of two dates eg (differnce between 5th jan 2013 and 1st jan 2013) 2.Suppose i have week number of the year, i want to know if i can find out the day it refers to eg( say week 2 of 2013 would be 6th jan 2013 and the day is sunday) i need my result to tell me that its

I am attempting to join several dataframes that summarize sampling effort for different samples into one large data.frame/table. I have looked at the merge command, but have not been clever enough to figure out how to get it to do what I want. A simplified example of what I am trying to do: The dataframes I have look like this (they were generated using the table command) species1.effort