On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 01:15:09AM +0000, Doran, Harold wrote:
> I?m struggling a bit with learning about POSIX objects to do some basic
> things with objects of this class. Suppose I have the following simple example
>
> times <- c("03:20", "29:56", "03:30", "21:03", "56:26")
>
> aa <- strptime(times, "%M:%S?)
>
> I can do means, and some other basic things, but I cannot correlate the
> objects with some other variable
>
> cor(aa, rnorm(5))I suspect you will find that manipulating times as numeric quantities (so you can do arithmetic on them) will be easier if you convert to seconds (possibly using a different vector, leaving "times" as it was). > Also, for purposes of a user-interface I have built with shiny, I need for > the time to be viewed as simply as minutes:seconds, such as this > > format(aa, '%M:%S?) > > But of course after doing this I lose the ability to work with this object as > a time variable. So do that with a copy -- the output of format() need not destroy its input. >... Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill r...@catwhisker.org Those who murder in the name of God or prophet are blasphemous cowards. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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