Re: [R] Converting ordinal dates and time into sensible formats

Yep that did the trick! I was sort stumbling along to this solution albeit less efficiently. Thanks for your help! Sam On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Steven Kennedy wrote: > How about something like: > > > data$DateTime<- strptime(paste(data$day.hour,data$min.sec,sep=" > "),format="%j%H %M%S"

Re: [R] Converting ordinal dates and time into sensible formats

How about something like: > data$DateTime<- strptime(paste(data$day.hour,data$min.sec,sep=" > "),format="%j%H %M%S") > data$Date <- strftime(data$DateTime,format="%Y-%m-%d") > data$Time <- strftime(data$DateTime,format="%H:%M:%S") > data day.hour min.secDateTime Date Time

[R] Converting ordinal dates and time into sensible formats

Hello all, I am having a little trouble working with "strptime" and I was hoping someone might be able to give me a hand. I have an instrument that outputs an ordinal date and time in two columns something like this: day.hour min.sec 1125252050 2125182029 3125242023 4