Try this; does away with the 'for', but have to convert back to
POSIXct since sapply strips off the class:
> x<-list()
> x[["a"]]<-as.POSIXct(c("2011-08-27 10:45:00 GMT", "2011-10-30 15:45:00 GMT",
> "2011-10-30 16:00:00 GMT", "2012-06-22 09:30:00 GMT", "2012-06-22 10:00:00
> GMT"))
> x[["b"]]<-as.POSIXct(c("2011-08-27 11:00:00 GMT", "2011-10-30 15:30:00 GMT",
> "2011-10-30 15:45:00 GMT", "2012-06-22 10:00:00 GMT"))
>
>
>
> x[[1]][as.Date(x[[1]])=="2011/10/30"][1]
[1] "2011-10-30 15:45:00 EDT"
>
> # convert to POSIXct
> unix2POSIXct <- function (time) structure(time, class = c("POSIXct",
> "POSIXt"))
>
>
> y <- data.frame(ID = names(x)
+ , first = unix2POSIXct(sapply(x, function(d) d[as.Date(d) ==
"2011-10-30"][1]))
+ , second = unix2POSIXct(sapply(x, function(d) d[as.Date(d) ==
"2011-10-30"][2]))
+ )
> y
ID first second
a a 2011-10-30 15:45:00 2011-10-30 16:00:00
b b 2011-10-30 15:30:00 2011-10-30 15:45:00
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Arnaud Duranel
<arnaud.duranel...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> A.K., many thanks for your reply.
> I have realised there was a mistake in my code, and that the example could
> have been clearer; my apologies for this, the corrected code is below:
>
>> x<-list()
>> x[["a"]]<-as.POSIXct(c("2011-08-27 10:45:00 GMT", "2011-10-30 15:45:00
>> GMT", "2011-10-30 16:00:00 GMT", "2012-06-22 09:30:00 GMT", "2012-06-22
>> 10:00:00 GMT"))
>> x[["b"]]<-as.POSIXct(c("2011-08-27 11:00:00 GMT", "2011-10-30 15:30:00
>> GMT", "2011-10-30 15:45:00 GMT", "2012-06-22 10:00:00 GMT"))
>
>>
>>
>> x[[1]][as.Date(x[[1]])=="2011/10/30"][1]
> [1] "2011-10-30 15:45:00 GMT"
>>
>> y<-data.frame()
>> for (i in 1:length(x)) {
> + y[i,"ID"]<-names(x[i])
> + y[i,"first"]<-x[[i]][as.Date(x[[i]])=="2011/10/30"][1]
> + y[i,"second"]<-x[[i]][as.Date(x[[i]])=="2011/10/30"][2]
> + }
>
>> y
> ID first second
> 1 a 1319989500 1319990400
> 2 b 1319988600 1319989500
>
> where I would need:
>> y
> ID first
> second
> 1 a 2011-10-30 15:45:00 2011-10-30 16:00:00
> 2 b 2011-10-30 15:30:00 2011-10-30 15:45:00
>
> The POSIXct objects in my list do not have the same length; and I need to
> extract those POSIXct values that match a specific date (2011-10-30 in this
> example), while keeping them in POSIXct format.
>
> Many thanks
> Arnaud
>
>
>
> On 24/09/2012 13:29, arun wrote:
>>
>> HI,
>> Try this:
>> dat1<-do.call(data.frame,x)
>> dat1<-data.frame(ID=letters[1:4],dat1)
>> dat1
>> # ID first second
>> #1 a 2011-08-27 10:45:00 2011-08-27 11:00:00
>> #2 b 2011-10-30 15:45:00 2011-10-30 15:30:00
>> #3 c 2011-10-30 16:00:00 2011-10-30 15:45:00
>> #4 d 2012-06-22 09:30:00 2012-06-22 10:00:00
>> str(dat1)
>> #'data.frame': 4 obs. of 3 variables:
>> # $ ID : Factor w/ 4 levels "a","b","c","d": 1 2 3 4
>> #$ first : POSIXct, format: "2011-08-27 10:45:00" "2011-10-30 15:45:00"
>> ...
>> #$ second: POSIXct, format: "2011-08-27 11:00:00" "2011-10-30 15:30:00"
>> ...
>> dat2<-dat1
>> dat2$first<-as.Date(dat2$first,format="%Y-%m-%d %HH:MM:%SS")
>> dat2$second<-as.Date(dat2$second,format="%Y-%m-%d %HH:MM:%SS")
>> dat2
>> # ID first second
>> #1 a 2011-08-27 2011-08-27
>> #2 b 2011-10-30 2011-10-30
>> #3 c 2011-10-30 2011-10-30
>> #4 d 2012-06-22 2012-06-22
>> str(dat2)
>> #'data.frame': 4 obs. of 3 variables:
>> # $ ID : Factor w/ 4 levels "a","b","c","d": 1 2 3 4
>> # $ first : Date, format: "2011-08-27" "2011-10-30" ...
>> # $ second: Date, format: "2011-08-27" "2011-10-30" ...
>> dat2<-within(dat2,ID<-as.character(ID))
>> subset(dat2,ID%in% c("a","b"))
>> # ID first second
>> #1 a 2011-08-27 2011-08-27
>> #2 b 2011-10-30 2011-10-30
>>
>>
>> A.K.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Arnaud Duranel <arnaud.duranel...@ucl.ac.uk>
>> To: r-help@r-project.org
>> Cc:
>> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 4:06 AM
>> Subject: [R] POSIXct coerced into numeric when filling a data frame
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> I have a list of POSIXct objects, from which I want to extract those
>> values that match a specific date, keeping them in POSIXct format. For a
>> specific date there is 0-2 matching values.
>> As an example (the actual list and objects are much longer):
>>
>> x<-list()
>> x[["first"]]<-as.POSIXct(c("2011-08-27 10:45:00 GMT", "2011-10-30
>> 15:45:00 GMT", "2011-10-30 16:00:00 GMT", "2012-06-22 09:30:00 GMT"))
>> x[["second"]]<-as.POSIXct(c("2011-08-27 11:00:00 GMT", "2011-10-30
>> 15:30:00 GMT", "2011-10-30 15:45:00 GMT", "2012-06-22 10:00:00 GMT"))
>>
>> If I use the following expression for one specific object of the list, I
>> get the result I expect:
>>
>> x[[1]][as.Date(x[[1]])=="2011/10/30"][1]
>>
>> [1] "2011-10-30 15:45:00 GMT"
>>
>>
>> Now if I write a for loop based on that expression to store the values
>> of interest in a data frame, the POSIXct values are coerced into numeric:
>>
>> y<-data.frame()
>> for (i in 1:length(x)) {
>> y[i,"ID"]<-names(x[i])
>> y[i,"first"]<-x[[i]][as.Date(x[[i]])=="2011/10/30"][1]
>> y[i,"second"]<-x[[i]][as.Date(x[[i]])=="2011/10/30"][2]
>> }
>>
>> ID first second
>> 1 a 1319989500 1319990400
>> 2 b 1319988600 1319989500
>>
>>
>> I am a bit confused about why that is.
>> I could coerce them back to POSIXct with another line of code, but is
>> there a better way? And is there a way to avoid using a for loop to
>> complete this task?
>> No need to say I am quite new to R, so apologies for any obvious mistake
>> or oversight.
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> A. Duranel, UCL Department of Geography
>>
>>
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