Michael Kirschbaum wrote:
Hello out there....

Again I have a problem and I stuck...

How can I sort a vector of dates?

A look at ?sort could help...



For example I have the vector


a<-ISOdate(2001, 1, 1) + 70*86400*runif(10)

How can this vector be sorted chronological?

a is : [1] "2001-03-05 10:48:42 CET" "2001-01-30 09:29:32 CET" [3] "2001-02-12 11:15:02 CET" "2001-03-07 23:58:43 CET" [5] "2001-01-16 08:02:11 CET" "2001-02-25 00:52:20 CET" [7] "2001-01-04 21:34:45 CET" "2001-01-30 09:37:40 CET" [9] "2001-02-05 19:10:17 CET" "2001-01-09 17:41:49 CET"

sort(a) does just what you wanted without any option - I still advise you to have a close look at ?sort


And what's the function I should work with to handle  these entries?
(in sense of:  which(a>2001-01-04) or somehting like that)

You have to convert with ISOdate the date you want to compare with the ones in the vector. For example,


d<-ISOdate(2001,2,1)

then you can do things like :

aa<-a[a<d]

See ?ISOdate


Thank you for helping


M.Kirschbaum

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