Re: [R] how to retain time zone when doing c(POSIXct)

2006-09-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Here is one way that does not require explicit assignment of tzone:

rbind(data.frame(x=xx), data.frame(x=xx[1] - 60), data.frame(x=xx[2] + 60))[[1]]


With xx from the post we get:

 rbind(data.frame(x=xx), data.frame(x=xx[1] - 60), data.frame(x=xx[2] + 
 60))[[1]]
[1] 2006-09-26 12:00:00 GMT 2006-09-26 13:00:00 GMT
[3] 2006-09-26 11:59:00 GMT 2006-09-26 13:01:00 GMT



On 9/27/06, Sebastian P. Luque [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello,

 What is the best way to concatenate POSIXct objects keeping the time zone
 attribute in a program?  For example:


 R xx - as.POSIXct(strptime(c(2006-09-26 12:00:00, 2006-09-26 13:00:00),
 +   format=%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S), tz=GMT)
 R xx
 [1] 2006-09-26 12:00:00 GMT 2006-09-26 13:00:00 GMT


 but, as ?c.POSIXct explains:


 R c(xx, xx[1] - 60, xx[2] + 60)
 [1] 2006-09-26 07:00:00 CDT 2006-09-26 08:00:00 CDT
 [3] 2006-09-26 06:59:00 CDT 2006-09-26 08:01:00 CDT


 Is there something better/safer than simply setting the tzone attribute
 of the new object?


 Cheers,

 --
 Seb

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[R] how to retain time zone when doing c(POSIXct)

2006-09-27 Thread Sebastian P. Luque
Hello,

What is the best way to concatenate POSIXct objects keeping the time zone
attribute in a program?  For example:


R xx - as.POSIXct(strptime(c(2006-09-26 12:00:00, 2006-09-26 13:00:00),
+   format=%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S), tz=GMT)
R xx
[1] 2006-09-26 12:00:00 GMT 2006-09-26 13:00:00 GMT


but, as ?c.POSIXct explains:


R c(xx, xx[1] - 60, xx[2] + 60)
[1] 2006-09-26 07:00:00 CDT 2006-09-26 08:00:00 CDT
[3] 2006-09-26 06:59:00 CDT 2006-09-26 08:01:00 CDT


Is there something better/safer than simply setting the tzone attribute
of the new object?


Cheers,

-- 
Seb

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