is.na(strptime("19810329012000",format="%Y%m%d%H%M%S"))
[1] TRUE
The problem was to do with daylight saving time. I need to specify a time zone
as this time doesn't exist in my operating system's current time zone. I still
think this is odd behaviour though! When you look at the missing obje
:18:00" [16]
> "2000-03-26 01:28:00"
Which obviously aren't missing.
I do want POSIXlt as I need to extract the day of the month (I'm
extracting daily maxima from irregulrly observed time series).
This seems like a bug to me, I just thought I'd check with people
Dear all,
I've come across a problem using strptime, can anyone explain what's
going on? I'm using version 2.7.0 on Windows XP.
Thank you
Caroline
First read in a data file using read.table
alldata = read.table(file, header=F, skip=4, colClasses =
c("character","numeric"))
dim(alldata)
[1] 2
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