I am trying to coerce a data frame column from character to datetime using strptime but keep getting an error because the length of the coerced object is always 9. What am I doing wrong here:
................................................................. > ds <- cbind(1:2, c("02/27/92 23:03:20", "02/27/92 22:29:56")); ds [,1] [,2] [1,] "1" "02/27/92 23:03:20" [2,] "2" "02/27/92 22:29:56" > > q <- strptime(ds[,2], "%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S"); q [1] "1992-02-27 23:03:20" "1992-02-27 22:29:56" > > ds[,2] <- q Error in "[<-"(`*tmp*`, , 2, value = q) : number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length > > length(q) [1] 9 ................................................................. --Rich Richard Kittler AMD TDG 408-749-4099 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html