Sorry I thought I was being clear. These is how the time values in columns are downloaded from online (http://ets.aeso.ca/). When there is an extra hour in the date there are two hour ending twos in the that day (HE02 and HE02*). I did not create the data this way.
What is a good way of dealing with data in this format? Col1<-c("11/02/2008", "11/02/2008", "11/02/2008", "11/02/2008") Col2<-c("02*", "02", "03", "04") Col3SomeMadeupnumbers<-seq(1, 4, by=1) df1 = data.frame(Col1, Col2,Col3SomeMadeupnumbers) Col1<-c("11/02/2008 02*", "11/02/2008 02", "11/02/2008 03", "11/02/2008 04") df2 = data.frame(Col1, Col3SomeMadeupnumbers) Also, Nov. 2, 2008 02 is when there was a time change. David Winsemius wrote > On Mar 24, 2014, at 3:35 PM, jcrosbie wrote: > >> I'm having a problem working with daylight savings dates in R. >> >> I'm downloading data in two formats. >> >> Format One Col 1: a date such as "11/03/2013" col 2: Hour ending = 02* >> Col1<-c("11/02/2008*", "11/02/2008", "11/02/2008", "11/02/2008") >> Col1<-c("02*", "02", "03", "04") >> >> Another data set is something like this: "11/03/2013 02*" >> Col1<-c("11/02/2008 02*", "11/02/2008 02", "11/02/2008 03", "11/02/2008 >> 04") >> >> These data frames are very big and over multiple years with multiple >> values >> for each hour ending. >> >> I'm trying to build subsets, filter, merge tables, lookup values with >> dates >> like these. How do I go about working with the "02*"? >> > > If you are adding those asterisks to that example (as I suspect) then you > are just creating problems in understanding what is really in your data. > Instead post output from dput(dat) for a section of an object named 'dat'. > > >> View this message in context: >> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-get-a-subset-with-a-date-such-as-Date-11-03-2013-HE-02-tp4687488.html >> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@ > 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. > > -- > David Winsemius > Alameda, CA, USA > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@ > 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. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-get-a-subset-with-a-date-such-as-Date-11-03-2013-HE-02-tp4687488p4687517.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.