hmmm.
I'm using xts_0.8-3 revision 602 on R-Forge, and it *almost* works for me,
but the time is off by an hour
> xts(1, order.by=strptime("04/05/87 2:00",format="%m/%d/%y %H:%M"))
[,1]
1987-04-05 01:00:00 1
>
-Garrett
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Dan Potter <arsanalyt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Wolfgang. On my machine sessionInfo shows I am using xts
> version 0.8-2 -
> I think it is the latest one, see
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xts/index.html
> Maybe someone can confirm correct operation in 0.8-2. Could this be a
> Revo/base R version issue?
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.12.2 (2011-02-25)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United
> States.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_United
> States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] dplR_1.4.7 xts_0.8-2 zoo_1.7-2 Revobase_4.3.0
> RevoMods_4.3.0 RevoScaleR_1.2-0 lattice_0.19-23
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Wolfgang Wu <wobw...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hmmm works fine for me.
> >
> > xts(1, order.by = strptime("04/05/87 2:00",format="%m/%d/%y %H:%M"))
> >
> > [,1]
> > 1987-04-05 02:00:00 1
> >
> > Maybe an old version of xts? I am using xts version 0.8-0. (you can check
> that with sessionInfo().)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Wolfgang Wu
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Ursprüngliche Message -----
> > Von: Dan Potter <arsanalyt...@gmail.com>
> > An: r-sig-finance@r-project.org
> > Cc:
> > Gesendet: 12:51 Freitag, 23.September 2011
> > Betreff: [R-SIG-Finance] xts NA date for
> >
> > Hello All,
> > I am new to R and having an issue with xts when I try and used it with
> > certain dates and times in 1987.
> >
> > Example
> >
> > > # This date and time works
> > > xts(1, order.by = strptime("04/05/87 12:00",format="%m/%d/%y %H:%M"))
> > [,1]
> > 1987-04-05 12:00:00 1
> >
> > # This date and time do not work
> > > xts(1, order.by = strptime("04/05/87 2:00",format="%m/%d/%y %H:%M"))
> > [,1]
> > <NA> 1
> >
> > I don't think the issue is with strptime since it seems to work fine
> > on the offending date and time, i.e.
> > > strptime("04/05/87 02:00",format="%m/%d/%y %H:%M")
> > [1] "1987-04-05 02:00:00"
> >
> > Any suggestion or work arounds would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dan
> >
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