An easy to check what you have is to use month.day.year: > eh <- data.frame(t = c("06/05/2005 01:15:25", "06/07/2005 01:15:25")) > > # substring converts factor to character and extracts substring > chron(dates = substring(eh$t, 1, 10), times = substring(eh$t, 12)) [1] (06/05/05 01:15:25) (06/07/05 01:15:25) > month.day.year(.Last.value) $month [1] 6 6
$day [1] 5 7 $year [1] 2005 2005 On 7/14/05, Sean O'Riordain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > are those dates in m/d/y or d/m/y ? > ?chron and watch out for > format = c(dates = "d/m/y", times = "h:m:s") > > > On 13/07/05, Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [I had some emails problems so I am sending this again. Sorry > > if you get it twice.] > > > > On 7/13/05, Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 7/13/05, Young Cho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I have a column of a dataframe which has time stamps > > > > like: > > > > > > > > > eh$t[1] > > > > [1] 06/05/2005 01:15:25 > > > > > > > > and was wondering how to convert it to chron variable. > > > > Thanks a lot. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Try this: > > > > # test data frame eh containing a factor variable t > > eh <- data.frame(t = c("06/05/2005 01:15:25", "06/07/2005 01:15:25")) > > > > # substring converts factor to character and extracts substring > > chron(dates = substring(eh$t, 1, 10), times = substring(eh$t, 12)) > > > > See ?chron for more info. There is an article on dates in > > R News 4/1 and although it does not specifically answer this > > question it may be useful with chron and also provides a > > reference to more chron info elsewhere. > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html