[R] help needed for strptime "000000" !

[Dieter Menne]

JESSICA wrote:
> 
> 
> I have a text file stored in notepad:
> 
> DATE                         TIME     Q
> 2004-11-01	233311	1
> 2004-11-01	234227	1
> ...
> I  run 
> 
> x<-read.table("C:/R/Sample.txt",header=T)
> then get a table 
> 
> ...
> I am trying to 
> 
> strptime(x$TIME,"%H%M%S")
> 
> and get : 
> 
>  [1] "2011-02-16 23:33:11" "2011-02-16 23:42:27" "2011-02-16 23:43:27"
>  [4] "2011-02-16 23:47:34" NA                    NA                   
>  [7] NA                    NA                    NA                   
> [10] NA                    NA                    NA      
> 
> 
Try (but I a note sure what to do with the DATE column.
Dieter

x<-read.table("datesample.txt",
  colClasses=c("Date","character","integer"), header=T) 
class(x$TIME)= "POSIXct"
strptime(x$TIME,"%H%M%S") 

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