Just a little typo: see below. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Haojie Yan <yhj...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Dear Michael, > > Thanks a lot for your hints. > > I have just had a try as below but still got back some error messages as > shown: > > The object containing the 'date_time' data is named 'INTERVAL_END_TIME' and > and wanted to plot it against another variable 'CHANNEL_01' (data type: > numerical). > > > As you suggested I did the following... > > (1) Converting 'INTERVAL_END_TIME' into charactor first and name it > 'DATE_TIME_1'; > (2) Converting 'DATE_TIME_1' into "POSIXlt" "POSIXt" type data > > But, seems it doesnt work well and I got 'NA's for all of them... > > Any thoughts?? > > Many thanks again! > HJ > > >> INTERVAL_END_TIME[1:10] > [1] 20/02/2012 00:10 20/02/2012 00:20 20/02/2012 00:30 20/02/2012 00:40 > 20/02/2012 00:50 > [6] 20/02/2012 01:00 20/02/2012 01:10 20/02/2012 01:20 20/02/2012 01:30 > 20/02/2012 01:40 > 1584 Levels: 01/03/2012 00:00 01/03/2012 00:10 01/03/2012 00:20 ... > 29/02/2012 23:50 > >> class(INTERVAL_END_TIME) > [1] "factor" > >> DATE_TIME_1<-as.character(INTERVAL_END_TIME) > >> DATE_TIME_1[1:10] > [1] "20/02/2012 00:10" "20/02/2012 00:20" "20/02/2012 00:30" "20/02/2012 > 00:40" > [5] "20/02/2012 00:50" "20/02/2012 01:00" "20/02/2012 01:10" "20/02/2012 > 01:20" > [9] "20/02/2012 01:30" "20/02/2012 01:40" > >> class(DATE_TIME_1) > [1] "character" > >> DATE_TIME_2<-as.POSIXlt(DATE_TIME_1,format="%d/%m/%y %H:%M")
This needs to be a capital "Y" as in my original post. e.g., x <- c("20/02/2012 00:10", "20/02/2012 00:20", "20/02/2012 00:30", "20/02/2012 00:40") as.POSIXct(x, format = "%d/%m/%y %H:%M") # No good :-( as.POSIXct(x, format = "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M") # Good! Michael > >> DATE_TIME_2[1:10] > [1] NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA > >> class(DATE_TIME_2) > [1] "POSIXlt" "POSIXt" > >> plot(DATE_TIME_2,CHANNEL_01) > Error in plot.window(...) : need finite 'xlim' values > In addition: Warning messages: > 1: In min(x) : no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf > 2: In max(x) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf >> > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:30 PM, R. Michael Weylandt > <michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> as.POSIXct(as.character(FACTORHERE), format = "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M") >> >> Michael >> >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Haojie Yan <yhj...@googlemail.com> >> wrote: >> > Dear R-user, >> > >> > I have read a dataset from .csv file into R. This dataset includes one >> > column containing some data in 'date and time' format, e.g. 'dd/mm/yyyy >> > hh:mm'. >> > >> > These data were automatically read and saved as 'factor' in R. When I >> > was >> > trying to produce some plots (such as time series) with the above 'date >> > and >> > time' on x-axis, it caused some disodering problem, e.g. 1st of March >> > 2012 >> > is in front of 10th of Feb. 2012 (if the data is from 10th Feb. 2012 to >> > 1st >> > of March 2012). I understand that I might have to convert them from >> > 'factor' to 'date' first, so I tried using 'as.date'. But this method >> > seems >> > only work for data in format of 'd/m/y' and no further option that >> > allows >> > me to add hours and minutes. >> > >> > I checked online for other methods such as 'as.POSIX' and 'strptime' but >> > none of them seem to offer me a quick solution. >> > >> > Please note that the data I received is recorded every 10 minutes so >> > they >> > are saved in the form of 'dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm', e.g. I only have data >> > measured up to 'minute' NOT to 'second'. Are there any direct solution >> > that I can solve this issue?? >> > >> > >> > Many thanks in advance! >> > HJ >> > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > >> >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> > PLEASE do read the posting guide >> > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.