[R] When I cbind the POSIXct gets lost

[Ken Spriggs]

Ok, thanks guys!  I see what you're sayin' now Gabor.  :)



mkeller wrote:
> 
> Ken,
> 
> not sure, but you might try
> 
> data.frame(whatever1=x[,1],whatever2=y)
> 
> this should maintain the classes of the vectors. I'm guessing that y
> and x are of different classes. From ?cbind:
> 
> "For the default method, a matrix combining the ... argument.  The
> type of a matrix result determined from the highest type of any of the
> inputs in the hierarchy raw < logical < integer < real < complex <
> character < list "
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> On Feb 8, 2008 2:59 PM, Ken Spriggs <ksspriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I would like to create a new dataframe from the DateTime column of an
>> existing dataframe and a numeric vector.  When I do cbind(x[,1], y) the
>> result is:
>>
>> [1,] 1199370600     12.500
>> [2,] 1199371200     69.375
>> [3,] 1199371800     23.750
>>
>> where the first column you see used to look like:
>>  "2008-01-03 08:30:00 Central Standard Time"
>>  "2008-01-03 08:40:00 Central Standard Time"
>>  "2008-01-03 08:50:00 Central Standard Time"
>>
>> How do I keep the DateTime from getting converted?  I've tried
>> as.POSIXct()
>> to convert it back (no luck).
>>
>>
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> 
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