On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Chris Evans <chrish...@psyctc.org> writes: > I am trying to read activity data created by Garmin. It outputs dates like > this: > > "Thu, 25 Aug 2016 6:34 PM" > > The problem that has stumped me is this: > >> strftime("Thu, 25 Aug 2016 6:34 PM",format="%a, %d %b %Y %I:%M %p") > Error in as.POSIXlt.character(x, tz = tz) : > character string is not in a standard unambiguous format
Didn't you mean strptime? ^ > strptime("Thu, 25 Aug 2016 6:34 PM",format="%a, %d %b %Y %I:%M %p") ## [1] "2016-08-25 18:34:00 CEST" > I _thought_ I had this running OK but that error is catching me now. > I think I've read ?strftime and written that format string correctly > to match the input but I'm stumped now. > > Can someone advise me? Many thanks in advance, > > Chris > > >> sessionInfo() > R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21) > Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) > Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 10586) > > locale: > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252 > [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252 > [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 > [4] LC_NUMERIC=C > [5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] compiler_3.3.1 tools_3.3.1 >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. -- Enrico Schumann Lucerne, Switzerland http://enricoschumann.net ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.