[R] a R question

Joerg Maeder maeder at atmos.umnw.ethz.ch
Wed Mar 20 14:27:55 CET 2002


Hello Jesús,

The numeric value is the differnece since 1970 1.Jan at one a clock in
th morning
you can see that with 
Sys.time()-as.numeric(Sys.time())

This information ypu can use to transform your numeric value
strptime("1970-01-01 01:00:00 MET",format='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
%Z')+995752800

gruess

jeorg



Jesús Fernández Gálvez wrote:
> 
> Dear Sir,
> 
> I have been working with R  for some time now and I am very happy with
> it, but I have found a problem that I could not resolve. Could you
> please give me some hint about how to transform  POSIX time data in
> seconds to  string  format?. (eg. 995752800 -> year-month,day,hour,min,
> sec) I tryed with Sys.time(), strptime() and date() but without success.
> 
> Thank you very much in advance
> 
> Jesus Fernandez
> Estacion Experimental del  Zaidin
> Granada, Spain
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