[R] Odd time conversion glitch

[Gabor Grothendieck]

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On Dec 27, 2007 2:31 PM, Pat Carroll <docpat2511 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello, all.
>
> I ran across an odd problem while working in R 2.6.0. The command line text follows. Basically, I attempted to convert a character vector of length 13 (in a data frame with 13 rows) from a character representation of dates to a POSIX representation using strptime. strptime returned a vector of length 9, which appears to contain 13 values (!) in the appropriate format.
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> I can't find any way to convince the strptime output that it has 13 values . . . even though (for example) posixvector[1:13] returns 13 values, anothervectorof length13<-posixvector[1:13] produces a length mismatch error.
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> Can anyone help diagnose this, or work around it?
>
> Many thanks,
> ~Pat Carroll.
>
>
> > Dataset$DateFilled
>  [1] "10/20/2005" "11/4/2005"  "11/18/2005" "12/2/2005"  "4/3/2006"   "6/5/2006"   "7/14/2006"  "4/27/2007"  "5/7/2007"   "7/17/2007"  "2/14/2005"
> [12] "2/14/2005"  "2/21/2005"
> > datefilledpos<-strptime(Dataset$DateFilled,format="%m/%d/%Y")
> > datefilledpos
>  [1] "2005-10-20" "2005-11-04" "2005-11-18" "2005-12-02" "2006-04-03" "2006-06-05" "2006-07-14" "2007-04-27" "2007-05-07" "2007-07-17" "2005-02-14"
> [12] "2005-02-14" "2005-02-21"
> > length(datefilledpos)
> [1] 9
> > length(Dataset$DateFilled)
> [1] 13
> > datefilledpos[1:13]
>  [1] "2005-10-20" "2005-11-04" "2005-11-18" "2005-12-02" "2006-04-03" "2006-06-05" "2006-07-14" "2007-04-27" "2007-05-07" "2007-07-17" "2005-02-14"
> [12] "2005-02-14" "2005-02-21"
> > Dataset$DateFilled<-datefilledpos
> Error in `$<-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, "DateFilled", value = list(sec = c(0,  :
>  replacement has 9 rows, data has 13
> > Dataset$DateFilled<-datefilledpos[1:13]
> Error in `$<-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, "DateFilled", value = list(sec = c(0,  :
>  replacement has 9 rows, data has 13
> >
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