[R] Converting time format

Eric Berger er|cjberger @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Mon Sep 19 13:19:47 CEST 2022


What is the output of

> class(b$time)

?

Also, start sending your emails in plaint text format, if possible.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 2:12 PM Parkhurst, David <parkhurs using indiana.edu> wrote:
>
> I have a dataframe obtained using read.csv from an excel file.  Its first column is times, running from 18:00 to 19:30.  If I want to plot other columns against time, do I need to convert those somehow, and how would I do that?
>
> If I run plot(b$time,b$myvar) I get a decent plot, but a friend suggests that R is just treating those numbers as text, and putting them in alphabetical order.  True?
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