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-- Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 9:26 AM, lily li <chocol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks for your help. Now I can convert data to the format "yyyy-mm-dd > hh:mm:ss", but how to convert it to "yyyy-mm-dd"? The datasets are txt > files, not from excel. > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Duncan Mackay <dulca...@bigpond.com> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Is this the output from Excel? >> If so format it in Excel for a date format not a date-time format . >> Depending how the dates were inputted into Excel and the Excel setup a date >> may not be a date format. >> There are no rules with microsoft formatting so beware! >> >> >> Regards >> >> Duncan >> >> Duncan Mackay >> Department of Agronomy and Soil Science >> University of New England >> Armidale NSW 2351 >> Email: home: mac...@northnet.com.au >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of lily li >> Sent: Saturday, 31 December 2016 05:38 >> To: Rui Barradas >> Cc: R mailing list >> Subject: Re: [R] about data format in R >> >> Hi Rui, >> >> Thanks for your reply. When I read in data using my code, the first column >> ranges from 0 to 1. So when I use the code you wrote, it shows the error >> message: >> Error in as.POSIXct.numeric(DF$Date, format = "%m/%d/%Y-%H:%M:%S") : >> 'origin' must be supplied >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> >> wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > Have you tried >> > >> > df$date <- as.POSIXct(dat$date, format = "%m/%d/%Y-%H:%M:%S") >> > >> > ? >> > >> > Hope this helps, >> > >> > Rui Barradas >> > >> > >> > >> > Em 30-12-2016 17:40, lily li escreveu: >> > >> >> Hi R users, >> >> >> >> I'm trying to read in data, and then plot time series data. However, I >> >> have >> >> some problems. In my dataset, the first column represents time, and in >> the >> >> format: >> >> mm/dd/yyyy-hr:min:sec; For example, 10/01/1995-00:00:00, >> >> 10/01/1995-06:00:00, etc. >> >> >> >> df: >> >> date evap precip intercept >> >> 10/01/1995-00:00:00 1.5 2 0.2 >> >> 10/01/1995-12:00:00 1.7 2.2 0.1 >> >> 10/02/1995-00:00:00 1.5 1.8 0.3 >> >> ... >> >> >> >> My code is like this >> >> file1 = read.table('df', head=T) >> >> >> >> When I read in data, I found that it read incorrectly. How to format >> when >> >> read in data? Thanks. >> >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> >> 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/posti >> >> ng-guide.html >> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> >> >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.