[R] When I cbind the POSIXct gets lost

[Gabor Grothendieck]

The point is don't use cbind -- use data.frame.

On Feb 9, 2008 1:20 PM, Ken Spriggs <ksspriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Gabor - Thanks.  I can recreate your example without any problem but I don't
> understand the relevance.
> Is turning the result of the cbind() into a dataframe what you're telling
> me?  If so, I tried that and I'm still stuck with the loss of the POSIXct.
> (If not I'm afraid I missed the point.)
>
>
>
>
> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> >
> > Use data.frame:
> >
> >> tt <- ISOdate(2000, 1:3, 1)
> >> cbind(tt, tt)
> >             tt        tt
> > [1,] 946728000 946728000
> > [2,] 949406400 949406400
> > [3,] 951912000 951912000
> >> data.frame(tt, tt)
> >                    tt                tt.1
> > 1 2000-01-01 12:00:00 2000-01-01 12:00:00
> > 2 2000-02-01 12:00:00 2000-02-01 12:00:00
> > 3 2000-03-01 12:00:00 2000-03-01 12:00:00
> >
> >
> > On Feb 8, 2008 4:59 PM, Ken Spriggs <ksspriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I would like to create a new dataframe from the DateTime column of an
> >> existing dataframe and a numeric vector.  When I do cbind(x[,1], y) the
> >> result is:
> >>
> >> [1,] 1199370600     12.500
> >> [2,] 1199371200     69.375
> >> [3,] 1199371800     23.750
> >>
> >> where the first column you see used to look like:
> >>  "2008-01-03 08:30:00 Central Standard Time"
> >>  "2008-01-03 08:40:00 Central Standard Time"
> >>  "2008-01-03 08:50:00 Central Standard Time"
> >>
> >> How do I keep the DateTime from getting converted?  I've tried
> >> as.POSIXct()
> >> to convert it back (no luck).
> >>
> >>
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