Read R News 4/1 help desk article and the last line of every message to r-help. Also putting POSIXlt objects into data frames is asking for trouble.
On 12/19/06, Shubha Karanth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Experts, > > > > I have a problem in Dates. > > > > I have a zoo object called 'intra'. And the class of index(intra) is > ("Chron" "Dates" "Time"). I need to put the index of this zoo object into a > data frame. So I used, > > > > idat<-data.frame(Datetime=as.POSIXlt(index(intra),"GMT")) > > > > > > But I get the values of 'idat' to be: > > > > "01joulu2006 09:59:59" > > "01joulu2006 10:09:59" > > "01joulu2006 10:19:59" > > "01joulu2006 10:30:00" > > "01joulu2006 10:40:00" > > "01joulu2006 10:50:00" > > > > > > But I need the 'idat' format to be: > > > > 2006-12-01 13:30:00 > > 2006-12-01 13:40:00 > > 2006-12-01 13:50:00 > > 2006-12-01 14:00:00 > > 2006-12-01 14:10:00 > > 2006-12-01 14:19:59 > > 2006-12-01 14:29:59 > > > > > > i.e., instead of joulu (The finnish version of December) I need to get in > the number format. How do I do this? Do I need to change the OS date format? > > > > Because I read a documentation which says "Unfortunately, the documentation > of POSIXt objects is Operating system dependent and especially under MS > Windows several problems appear in the management of time zones and day > light saving times" (Source: R Documentation, timeDate Class). Thought this > may help you… > > > > Thank you, > > Shubha. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > 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 > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.