Try something similar to this:
## unchanged
full <- read.table("March_15.dat", sep=",",row.names=NULL,
as.is=TRUE,skip=1,header=TRUE)
## then convert TIMESTAMP to a date-time class
full$TIMESTAMP <- as.POSIXct(full$TIMESTAMP)
## now you can use subset()
atimeframe <- subset(full,
TIMESTAMP >= as.POSIXct('2011-03-15 00:00:00') &
TIMESTAMP <= as.POSIXct('2011-03-15 00:01:30')
)
Hope this helps.
And a couple of comments on your example.
In an expression like you used,
timestamp==as.character("2011-03-15 00:01:30")
just do
timestamp=="2011-03-15 00:01:30"
"2011-03-15 00:01:30" is already a character string, so you don't have to
use
as.character() on it.
You used for(), but for() is used to
make loops, as in
for (i in 1:10) { }
which has basically nothing to do with extracting a subset of rows from a
dataframe.
-Don
--
Don MacQueen
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
7000 East Ave., L-627
Livermore, CA 94550
925-423-1062
-----Original Message-----
From: Pablo Rosado <pablojros...@lbl.gov>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 14:21:00 -0700
To: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org>
Subject: [R] selecting data from table with timestamp
>Hi,
>I am using read.table to get this data that has a timestamp. The data is
>for many days, but I only want to run the code I wrote only for specific
>day/days/times. I can´t figure out how to select a timeframe from the
>list.
>I have tried using subset() and didn't work
>
>I then used:
>* timestamp[for(timestamp==as.character("2011-03-15 00:00:00" ) |
>timestamp==as.character("2011-03-15 00:01:30"))]*
>but it gives me the list of the timestamp for that interval, but I want
>the
>complete data.table for that interval, not just the values of the
>TIMESTAMP
>column.
>
>Here is the script I use to read the table and select the timestamp
>interval:
>
>*full <- read.table("March_15.dat", sep=",",row.names=NULL,
>as.is=TRUE,skip=1,
>header=TRUE)
>minusrows <- full[-1:-2,]
>names(minusrows)
>timestamp <- minusrows[,1]
>timestamp3 <- timestamp[for(timestamp==as.character("2011-03-15 00:00:00"
>)
>| timestamp==as.character("2011-03-15 00:01:30"))]
>timestamp3*
>
>An example of what minusrows look like:
>*
>> minusrows[1:5,1:4]
> TIMESTAMP RECORD Batt_Volt_Avg attic.air_temp_cool_north
>3 2011-03-15 00:00:00 0 13.35 17.99
>4 2011-03-15 00:00:30 1 13.35 18.00
>5 2011-03-15 00:01:00 2 13.35 17.98
>6 2011-03-15 00:01:30 3 13.35 17.99
>7 2011-03-15 00:02:00 4 13.35 17.97*
>
>Thank You so much for your help and time,
>
>
>--
>*Pablo J. Rosado*, *Ph.D. Student*
>*Graduate Student Researcher Assistant*
>*University of California - Berkeley*
>
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>
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