[R] Microseconds for a zoo object?

Creighton, Sean sean.creighton at citi.com
Thu May 8 15:58:01 CEST 2008


Hello

I have a string which contains microseconds, can anyone help on
constructing this in to a time object, with the microseconds, that I can
take to a ZOO file?

Thanks
Sean



> UK[1,3] 
[1] "17:09:53.824"
> UK[1,1]
[1] "2007-12-11 00:00:00"
> mydates <- paste( substr(UK[,1], 1, 10), UK[,3])  
> mydates[1]
[1] "2007-12-11 17:09:53.824"
> is(mydates)
[1] "character" "vector"   
> dt1 <- as.POSIXct(strptime(as.character(mydates),"%Y-%m-%d
%H:%M:%S",tz="GMT"))
> dt1[1]
[1] "2007-12-11 17:09:53 GMT"
> is(dt1)
[1] "POSIXt"   "oldClass" "POSIXct"  "POSIXlt" 
> 
> 



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