Re: [R] calculating seconds

2013-02-20 Thread S Ellison
I'm looking at some data which has the time in seconds since 1992/10/8, 15:15:42.5 Are there any functions currently available to translate this or should I just do my own? strptime() goes from date formats to seconds. For going the other way, see ?DateTimeClasses for a lot of

[R] calculating seconds

2013-02-19 Thread Erin Hodgess
Dear R People: I'm looking at some data which has the time in seconds since 1992/10/8, 15:15:42.5 Are there any functions currently available to translate this or should I just do my own? I figured that I'd check first. Thanks, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer

Re: [R] calculating seconds

2013-02-19 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 19.02.2013 18:52, Erin Hodgess wrote: Dear R People: I'm looking at some data which has the time in seconds since 1992/10/8, 15:15:42.5 Just ask R to strptime(1992/10/8,15:15:42.5, %Y/%m/%d,%H:%M:%OS) + NumberOfSeconds and you get the actual date after the given amount of

Re: [R] calculating seconds

2013-02-19 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Your subject line says you want to calculate seconds... the body of your message says you want to translate seconds (to something unspecified). I am not sure how we are supposed to respond. Can you give us a short example of what you have and what you want using R syntax?