similar to: cumsum on chron objects

Hi, One of the big decisions when writing code is how to handle dates and times. Gabor Grothendieck provided an excellent overview of the issue in his R News 4/1 (2004) article, and many users and developers are probably using it as a guide. The proposed guideline is to use the simplest class required; as Gabor put it "use Date if possible, otherwise use chron, and otherwise use

Hello, I'm adding a private library tree in my home directory by adding this to my ~/.Renviron: R_LIBS="~/R/library:${R_LIBS}" so that once in R: R> cat(Sys.getenv("R_LIBS"), "\n") ~/R/library:/usr/local/lib/R/site-library:/usr/lib/R/site-library:/usr/lib/R/library Is this the best way to proceed? Cheers, -- Sebastian P. Luque

I have been lurking in this list a while and searching in the archives to find out how one learns to write fast R code. One solution seems to be to write part of the code not in R but in C. However after finding a benchmark article (http://www.sciviews.org/other/benchmark.htm) I have been more interested in making the R code itself more efficient. I would like to find more info about this. I have

Hello, I've encountered the need to cut some chron objects of the form: R> mychron <- chron(sort(runif(10, 0, 10))) R> mychron [1] (01/01/70 16:36:20) (01/02/70 00:08:46) (01/03/70 16:54:49) [4] (01/04/70 06:45:00) (01/07/70 06:21:24) (01/07/70 18:28:44) [7] (01/08/70 00:47:05) (01/08/70 05:11:44) (01/10/70 01:07:53) [10] (01/10/70 17:46:53) into arbitrary (e.g. a given number

Hi, Say we have two chron vectors representing start and end date/times of an event, respectively: R> (xfrom <- chron(seq(1.25, 11, 3.25))) [1] (01/02/70 06:00:00) (01/05/70 12:00:00) (01/08/70 18:00:00) [4] (01/12/70 00:00:00) R> (xto <- chron(as.numeric(xfrom) + seq(1.5, 2.25, 0.25))) [1] (01/03/70 18:00:00) (01/07/70 06:00:00) (01/10/70 18:00:00) [4] (01/14/70 06:00:00) and we

Hi, I have a 3 panel xyplot with different variables in the y axis. I'm trying to insert a newline after "Width (cm)," in the ylab argument as in the example below. My goal is to have the y axis label broken into two lines, split after the string just mentioned. plotfun <- function() { fakedf <- data.frame(A = sample(1:100, 50), B = rnorm(50),

Hello, Has anybody been able to successfully install MS Office XP Pro in Wine? I don't care much about the whole suite, I need MS Access, but since I have a bundled cd, I don't have much choice. Apparently several folks have had similar problems in this list, and I haven't found solutions. Wine-version is 0.0.20041201-1 Debian unstable package. I'm not sure I'm starting the

Hi, Is there some alternative to the 'groups' argument in lattice's bwplot function for boxplots? Say in the example below: bwplot(yield ~ site | year, data = barley) you want to have two side by side boxplots per site, corresponding to each year in the barley data frame. Ideally, the space between boxplots of the same site should be smaller than that between boxplots of different

Hi all, Does anybody know whether one can nest an 'if' statement in a 'for' loop. According to the results of my code, the for loop is performed first, but I'm not sure I got something else wrong with my code. I'm trying to perform the if statement for each step of the for loop. Thanks in advance. Best regards, Sebastian

Hi, I'm trying to establish a connection to a MySQL database, and am using the rodbc package for it. This is in a GNU/Debian Linux box, with the corresponding Debian unstable packages. I can login to my MySQL databases from any shell and directory, so the problem is probably not there. Here's an example of what I'm doing: R> odbcConnect("test",

NOTE: I will provide data if necessary, but I didn't want clutter everyones mailbox All: I have a time series with level and temperature data for 11 sites for each of three bases. I will have to do this more than once is what I am saying here. OK, The time series are zoo objects with index values in chron format. The problem is that the date and times should be at even 15 min intervals,

Dear all, As a novice user of R I ran into a problem that's quite hard for me to resolve. I have a database containing data of a clinical trial in which patients are included that survived or died: x <- matrix(data=c(1:5,0, "1/1/2012 00:00:00",0,0,"1/7/2012 00:00:00"), nrow=5, ncol=2, dimnames= list(NULL,c("ID", "dateofdeath"))) My file is a .csv

I was just looking for an easy way to convert between COM datetime and chron datetime (both ways.) I found examples on the list, but they involved origin. Does anyone have functions for converting COM datetime <-> chron datetimethat work "safely"? David L. Reiner > -----Original Message----- > From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendieck@gmail.com] >

hello I think I've found a bug I don't know if it's a chron bug or a R one. (05/12/05 23:00:00) +1/24 gives (05/12/05 24:00:00) instead of (05/13/05 00:00:00) it looks like the same but it's not because when you get the date of this datetime it says day 12 instead of 13. Please, forward it to the place where this bugs are supposed to be posted. cheers -- View this message

Running R 2.13.1 on Windows XP. I would like to get week of the year (1-52) for each date. library(chron) dts <- dates(c("02/27/92", "02/27/92", "01/14/92","02/28/92", "02/01/92")) dts dts.chron <- as.chron(dts) dts.chron class(dts.chron) # all of these component extractions work: months(dts.chron) weekdays(dts.chron) years(dts.chron)

Full_Name: Rick Bilonick Version: 1.6.0 OS: Linux (RH 7.1) Submission from: (NULL) (12.4.226.1) Hi. I'm using Red Hat 7.1 Linux (Intel 586). I installed the 1.6.0 rpm. No problems were reported. When I tried to load the chron library: Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) : unable to load shared library "/usr/lib/R/library/chron/libs/chron.so":

Hi list, I have some questions regarding 1) conversion of date + time characters to chron 2) formatting chron object printing Regarding (1), Gabor's Rnews 2004 4/1 article has been indispensible, but I often work with files where dates and times are contained in a single field. In this case, I would like to control input/output of chron objects when each observation of date and time is

This is the same set of data that I have been working with for those in the know. it is a matrix of ~174 columns and ~70,000 rows. I have it as a zoo object, but I could read it in as just a matrix as long as the date time stamp won't be corrupted. here is an example of what a column would look like: 1/1/06 12:00, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6 ,7, NA #read in with the

Hey R folks, i found some strange (to me) behaviour with chron to POSIXct conversion. The two lines of code result in two different results, on ewith the correct time zone, one without: library(chron) as.POSIXct(chron('12/12/2000'), tz = 'UTC') as.POSIXlt(chron('12/12/2000'), tz = 'UTC') Only the code below would give me a POSIXct object with the correct time

I can't get the scales parameter in xyplot of lattice to work as I expected. I'm using R-2.1.0 and lattice 0.11-8. There should be year labels from 1992 to 2004 for the x axis in the plot below, but instead only a few of them appear, and in the wrong spots, as if the coordinate system has changed after finishing with the panel function. library(chron) library(lattice) # vertical grid