[R] Some help with dates.

[jim holtman]

Check out 'POSIXlt'.  This should provide a hint as to how you can do it:

> ?as.POSIXlt
> x <- as.POSIXlt('2008-03-04 11:00')
> x
[1] "2008-03-04 11:00:00 GMT"
> unlist(x)
  sec   min  hour  mday   mon  year  wday  yday isdst
    0     0    11     4     2   108     2    63     0
> ?POSIXlt
> myDate <- paste(x$wday, x$hour)
> myDate
[1] "2 11"
>


On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:35 AM, Paul Fisch <fischp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm new to R but familiar with other programming languages.
>
> Basically, I want to store an array of dates.  For each of these dates I
> want to store only the day of the week and the hour.  So for example:
> "Monday 12" would be Monday at 12 o'clock and "Tuesday 20" would be Tuesday
> at 8 p.m.
>
> Alternatively it could be stored as 0-6 for Sunday to Saturday.  So Tuesday
> at 11 a.m. would be something like "2 11".
>
> These dates don't need to be stored exactly like I have written.  I just
> would like to know how R would store a day of the week combined with an hour
> in a variable.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
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