Re: [R] aggregating dates

2005-01-31 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Paul Sorenson Paul.Sorenson at vision-bio.com writes: : : I have a frame which contains 3 columns: : : date defectnum state : : And I want to get the most recent state change for a given defect number. date is POSIXct. : : I have tried: : aggregate(ev$date, by=list(ev$defectnum), max)

RE: [R] aggregating dates

2005-01-30 Thread Mulholland, Tom
This seems to work toPOSIX - function(x){ y - x - as.numeric(ISOdate(2005,1,1)) z - ISOdate(2005,1,1) + y return(z) } test - as.numeric(ISOdate(2005,3,1) ) toPOSIX(test) But whether one should be doing this I don't know. There are certainly functions that play aorund with the POSIX