[Rd] converting #sec to POSIX* format

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On 1 May 2002, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> lsjensen <lsjensen@micron.com> writes:
>
> > Sure I'm missing something simple here, but I haven't been able to find a
> > easy way to convert a pure numeric (# of seconds since the beginning of
> > 1970) back into a POSIX* object.
> >
> > ex.
> > > z<-as.POSIXct(Sys.time())

It's POSIXct already.

> > > z
> > [1] "2002-05-01 10:33:56 Mountain Daylight Time"
> > > x<-unclass(z)
> > > x
> > [1] 1020270836
> >
> > Is there a simple way to transform x back into a POSIX* object similar to z?
>
> > 1020270836 + ISOdate(1970,1,1,0,0)
> [1] "2002-05-01 18:33:56 CEST"

Or, as you did unclass(), reverse that by classing it:

class(x) <- c("POSIXt", "POSIXct")

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