[R] Strage result with an append/strptime combination

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try


fmt <- function(x) with(month.day.year(x),
	sprintf("%02d/%02d/%02d %02d:%02d:%02d", month, day, year,
		hours(x), minutes(x), seconds(x)))
fmt(x)


On 8/29/07, Ptit_Bleu <ptit_bleu at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
> Thanks Gabor !
>
> It works.
> Just one more thing : is there a possibility to remove "(" and ")" before I
> copy the data to a MySQL database.
>
> Again thank you for the tip.
> Ptit Bleu.
>
>
> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> >
> > Try chron:
> >
> >> library(chron)
> >> namefile <- "070707050642.dat"    #day-month-year-hour-minute-second.dat
> >> x <- chron(substr(namefile, 1, 6), substr(namefile, 7, 12),
> > +   format = c("dmy", "hms"), out.format = c("m/d/y", "h:m:s"))
> >> c(x, x)
> > [1] (07/07/07 05:06:42) (07/07/07 05:06:42)
> >
> > See R News 4/1 Help Desk article for more.
> >
> >
> > On 8/29/07, Ptit_Bleu <ptit_bleu at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I keep on trying to write some small scripts in order to learn R but even
> >> with basic scripts I have problems ...
> >>
> >> I start with the name of a file which is in fact the time the file has
> >> been
> >> generated (I cannot change the format). Then I convert namefile with
> >> strptime. The problem occurs when I add another time from another file
> >> with
> >> append. It displays some informations I don't want.
> >>
> >> I found a post about this problem
> >> (http://www.nabble.com/Error-with-strptime-tf3607942.html#a10081942) but
> >> I
> >> don't understand the solution. I tested as.POSIXct or as.POSIX.lt but it
> >> has
> >> no effect.
> >>
> >> Do you have some ideas to solve this problem ?
> >> Thank you for your help.
> >> Ptit Bleu.
> >>
> >> -------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> >namefile<-"070707050642.dat"    #day-month-year-hour-minute-second.dat
> >> >jourheure<-strptime(namefile,"%d%m%y%H%M%S")
> >>
> >> > jourheure
> >> [1] "2007-07-07 05:06:42"
> >>
> >> >jourheure<-append(jourheure,jourheure)
> >> > jourheure
> >> [1] "2007-07-07 05:06:42 Paris, Madrid (heure d'été)" "2007-07-07
> >> 05:06:42
> >> Paris, Madrid (heure d'été)"
> >>
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