Hi Greg, As the POSIX conversion part is already answered, I'll add: as.Date("16/03/2021",format="%d/%m/%Y")
converts to Date object and axis.Date() will display dates on the date axis in base graphics. Jim On Tue, 16 Mar 2021, 08:33 Gregory Coats via R-help <r-help@r-project.org wrote: > I store in a text file the dates and times that an event occurred. > How do I direct R to import these text characters, and store the year, > month, day, hour, minute, and second as a date? > How do I then plot this series of dates? > 2021-03-11 10:00:00 > 2021-03-11 14:17:00 > 2021-03-12 05:16:46 > 2021-03-12 09:17:02 > 2021-03-12 13:31:43 > 2021-03-12 22:00:32 > 2021-03-13 09:21:43 > 2021-03-13 13:51:12 > 2021-03-13 18:03:13 > 2021-03-13 22:20:28 > 2021-03-14 08:59:03 > 2021-03-14 13:15:56 > 2021-03-14 17:25:23 > 2021-03-14 21:36:26 > Greg Coats > gregco...@me.com > > > [[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. > [[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.