[R] POSIX to ts and back to POSIX

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Is your question how to convert a vector v containing
seconds since the Epoch to POSIXct?  If that's it, then
one way is:

now <- Sys.time()
Epoch <- now - as.numeric(now)
Epoch + v



 <Allen.Joel <at> epamail.epa.gov> writes:
: 
: I am trying to use POSIX datetime objects rather than chron datetime
: objects but am having difficulty with POSIX in a time series.  My
: question:  Once a POSIXct vector is bound to a time series, is there a
: function to convert back to POSIXct?  The following code demonstrates
: what I am trying to do.
: 
: > ts(as.POSIXct(strptime(tmp,"%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S")),freq=1440)
: Time Series:
: Start = c(1, 1)
: End = c(1, 10)
: Frequency = 1440
:  [1] 1074022572 1074022632 1074022693 1074022753 1074022813 1074022874
: 1074022934 1074022994 1074023055 1074023115
: attr(,"tzone")
: [1]
: > as.POSIXct(ts(as.POSIXct(strptime(tmp,"%m/%d/%Y
: %H:%M:%S")),freq=1440))
: Error in as.POSIXct.default(ts(as.POSIXct(strptime(tmp, "%m/%d/%Y
: %H:%M:%S")),  :
:       Don't know how to convert `ts(as.POSIXct(strptime(tmp, "%m/%d/%Y
: %H:%M:%S")), freq = 1440)' to class "POSIXct"
: 
: this does not work either
: 
: > as.POSIXct(as.numeric(as.POSIXct(strptime(tmp,"%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S"))))
: Error in as.POSIXct.default(as.numeric(as.POSIXct(strptime(tmp,
: "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S")))) :
:       Don't know how to convert `as.numeric(as.POSIXct(strptime(tmp,
: "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S")))' to class "POSIXct"
: 
: Thanks in advance.
: 
: H. Joel Allen, PhD
: Environmental Scientist
: U.S. EPA
: NRMRL, Water Quality Management Branch
: 26 W. Martin Luther King Dr
: Cincinnati, OH 45268
: 
: Phone: 513 487-2806
: Fax: 513 569-7052
: Email: allen.joel <at> epa.gov
: 
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