[R] How to create sequence of constant time interval

[Gabor Grothendieck]

For version 2.3-30 of chron which just appeared on CRAN this can
be simplified to:

library(chron)
tt <- times(0:47/48)
tt
chron("1/1/09", tt) # no rep needed

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Try this (and see R News 4/1 for more).
>
>> library(chron)
>> tt <- times(0:47/48)
>> tt
>  [1] 00:00:00 00:30:00 01:00:00 01:30:00 02:00:00 02:30:00 03:00:00
> 03:30:00 04:00:00 04:30:00 05:00:00 05:30:00 06:00:00 06:30:00
> 07:00:00 07:30:00
> [17] 08:00:00 08:30:00 09:00:00 09:30:00 10:00:00 10:30:00 11:00:00
> 11:30:00 12:00:00 12:30:00 13:00:00 13:30:00 14:00:00 14:30:00
> 15:00:00 15:30:00
> [33] 16:00:00 16:30:00 17:00:00 17:30:00 18:00:00 18:30:00 19:00:00
> 19:30:00 20:00:00 20:30:00 21:00:00 21:30:00 22:00:00 22:30:00
> 23:00:00 23:30:00
>
>> chron(rep("1/1/09", length = length(tt)), tt)
>  [1] (01/01/09 00:00:00) (01/01/09 00:30:00) (01/01/09 01:00:00)
> (01/01/09 01:30:00) (01/01/09 02:00:00) (01/01/09 02:30:00) (01/01/09
> 03:00:00)
>  [8] (01/01/09 03:30:00) (01/01/09 04:00:00) (01/01/09 04:30:00)
> (01/01/09 05:00:00) (01/01/09 05:30:00) (01/01/09 06:00:00) (01/01/09
> 06:30:00)
> [15] (01/01/09 07:00:00) (01/01/09 07:30:00) (01/01/09 08:00:00)
> (01/01/09 08:30:00) (01/01/09 09:00:00) (01/01/09 09:30:00) (01/01/09
> 10:00:00)
> [22] (01/01/09 10:30:00) (01/01/09 11:00:00) (01/01/09 11:30:00)
> (01/01/09 12:00:00) (01/01/09 12:30:00) (01/01/09 13:00:00) (01/01/09
> 13:30:00)
> [29] (01/01/09 14:00:00) (01/01/09 14:30:00) (01/01/09 15:00:00)
> (01/01/09 15:30:00) (01/01/09 16:00:00) (01/01/09 16:30:00) (01/01/09
> 17:00:00)
> [36] (01/01/09 17:30:00) (01/01/09 18:00:00) (01/01/09 18:30:00)
> (01/01/09 19:00:00) (01/01/09 19:30:00) (01/01/09 20:00:00) (01/01/09
> 20:30:00)
> [43] (01/01/09 21:00:00) (01/01/09 21:30:00) (01/01/09 22:00:00)
> (01/01/09 22:30:00) (01/01/09 23:00:00) (01/01/09 23:30:00)
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Suresh_FSFM <suresh.ghalsasi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear R-Experts,
>>
>> seek your help.
>>
>> There are two parts I want to deal with.
>> 1)
>> I want to create a time interval of say, 30 minutes starting from "00:00:00"
>> hrs
>> Thus at the end, I want to create sequence:
>> 00:00:00
>> 00:30:00
>> 01:00:00
>> 01:30:00
>> ..
>> ..
>> How to do so ?
>> Later, I want to change the time-increment value in a variable and changing
>> the value of this variable, I would like to create new sequence with that
>> time increment. How to use "seq()" correctly?
>>
>> 2)
>> I have a date stored in one variable. Say "2009-01-01"
>> How can I combine this date with each time interval in the first part? Will
>> concatenate work?
>> so at the end, I would like to have:
>>
>> 2009-01-01 00:00:00
>> 2009-01-01 00:30:00
>> 2009-01-01 01:00:00
>> 2009-01-01 01:30:00
>> ...
>> ...
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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