Re: [R] R treating time

2010-01-07 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
You might check one of the other methods of reading Excel spreadsheets. If you google for R Wiki Excel and then click on Cached (since the R Wiki seems to be down at the moment) various alternatives are listed. On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:32 AM, chrisli1223 wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have imported a

Re: [R] R treating time

2010-01-07 Thread Michal Kulich
There is an alternative through strsplit() when the desired output format is numeric (fractional hours on 0-24 scale). > aa <- c("3:00","11:42") > bb <- strsplit(aa,":") > bb [[1]] [1] "3" "00" [[2]] [1] "11" "42" > cc <- sapply(bb,function(x){as.numeric(x[1])+as.numeric(x[2])/60}) > cc [1] 3

Re: [R] R treating time

2010-01-06 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: Let x <- '3:00' The R package for data that are only dates or only times is chron. For times, it appears that the strings need to be in the form hh:mm:ss on a 24-hour clock, so for example, 1:30 PM should be expressed as 13:30:00. [I didn't see any option for a 12-hour clock with an optional

[R] R treating time

2010-01-06 Thread chrisli1223
Hi all, I have imported a value 3:00 from Excel into R using read.csv. I want R to recognise it as 3:00am (time data). How do I do it? Thanks in advance, Chris -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/R-treating-time-tp1008608p1008608.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive