[R] date and time functions

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Wed Jan 27 14:10:59 CET 2010


Read the article in R News 4/1.

2010/1/27 Robert Kalicki <robert.kalicki at mph.unibe.ch>:
> Dear R community
>
> I would like to perform some statistical analysis on a data set containing
> the following items: date, time, index of observation and various
> covariates.
>
> The date and time are originally extracted in the following format:
> dd.mm.yyyy  and hh:mm:ss respectively. R and more precisely the function
> read.table() seems to read the data properly. In a second step, I would like
> to sort and subset the data according to daytime, day of the week, month,
> season but I get into trouble when trying to use the built-in functions with
> this format.
>
> Which is the most convenient date and time format in R to perform such kind
> of work?
>
> Is there any specific, powerful and well documented package containing
> various date and time functions?
>
>
>
> Many thanks in advance
>
>
>
> Best regards
>
>
>
> ___________________________________________
> Robert M. Kalicki, MD
>
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