Hi John,
No problem
If you look at the storage mode:
storage.mode(mydata$dd1)
#[1] "integer"
I think during melt, it
class(mdat$value)
#[1] "numeric"
class(mydata$dd1)
#[1] "POSIXct" "POSIXt"
I guess during melting, this gets coerced to integer class.
You can also do:
mdat$value<-structure(mdat$value,class=c("POSIXt","POSIXct"))
#or
as.POSIXct(mdat$value,origin="1970-01-01")
class(mdat$value)
#[1] "POSIXt" "POSIXct"
A.K.
----- Original Message -----
From: John Kane <jrkrid...@inbox.com>
To: arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com>
Cc: R help <r-help@r-project.org>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: [R] melt in reshape2 destroying dates?
Thanks very much. I could have sworn I had tried that but obviously I had
not.
So melt() is returning the correct value which is what I had suspected but I
obiously did not convert it properly.I wonder if this buggy enough to mention
the behaviour to the package maintainer?
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
> -----Original Message-----
> From: smartpink...@yahoo.com
> Sent: Mon, 13 May 2013 11:05:58 -0700 (PDT)
> To: jrkrid...@inbox.com
> Subject: Re: [R] melt in reshape2 destroying dates?
>
> In the first case:
> mdat$value<-.POSIXct(mdat$value,tz="EST")
> mdat$value[1:3]
> #[1] "2012-01-01 01:00:00 EST" "2012-01-01 02:00:00 EST"
> #[3] "2012-01-01 03:00:00 EST"
> mydata$dd1[1:3]
> #[1] "2012-01-01 01:00:00 EST" "2012-01-01 02:00:00 EST"
> #[3] "2012-01-01 03:00:00 EST"
> A.K.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Kane <jrkrid...@inbox.com>
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 1:36 PM
> Subject: [R] melt in reshape2 destroying dates?
>
> When I melt a data frame with some dates I am getting some strange
> results. I seem to lose the date format with POSIXct and get a row of
> zeros with POSIXlt
>
> Any suggestions as to what I am messing up? Code and data below.
> Thanks,
> John Kane
> Kingston ON Canada
>
> mydata <- structure(list(dd1 = structure(c(1325397600L, 1325401200L,
> 1325404800L,
> 1325408400L, 1325412000L, 1325415600L, 1325419200L, 1325422800L,
> 1325426400L, 1325430000L, 1325433600L, 1325437200L, 1325440800L,
> 1325444400L, 1325448000L, 1325451600L, 1325455200L, 1325458800L,
> 1325462400L, 1325466000L), class = c("POSIXct", "POSIXt"), tzone = ""),
> dd2 = structure(c(1325426400, 1325412000, 1325426400, 1325422800,
> 1325422800, 1325426400, 1325433600, 1325437200, 1325455200,
> 1325458800, 1325451600, 1325458800, 1325466000, 1325466000,
> 1325476800, 1325476800, 1325480400, 1325466000, 1325480400,
> 1325491200), class = c("POSIXct", "POSIXt"), tzone = ""),
> emp = structure(c(1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L,
> 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L), class = "factor", .Label =
> c("part-time",
> "self-employed")), period = 1:20), .Names = c("dd1", "dd2",
> "emp", "period"), row.names = c(NA, -20L), class = "data.frame")
>
> library(lubridate)
> library(reshape2)
>
> str(mydata)
> mdat <- melt(mydata, id=c("emp","period"))
> str(mdat)
>
> # alternatively
>
> mydata$dd1 <- as.POSIXlt(mydata$dd1)
> mydata$dd2 <- as.POSIXlt(mydata$dd2)
> str(mydata)
> mdat <- melt(mydata, id=c("emp","period"))
> str(mdat)
>
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