[R] Converting from char to POSIX:

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Agustin Lobo wrote:

> Given char vector delme2:
>> str(delme2)
> chr [1:1065] "30-1-08 8:48:21" "30-1-08 8:55:17" "30-1-08 9:00:22" ...
>
> I do:
>> delme3 <-  strptime(delme2,format="%d-%m-%y %H:%M:%S")
>
> But then:
>> str(delme3)
> POSIXlt[1:9], format: "2008-01-30 08:48:21" "2008-01-30 08:55:17" ...
>> length(delme3)
> [1] 9
>
> whie
>
>> delme3[1065]
> [1] "2008-06-09 18:25:46"
>
> Where does the length 9 come from? How is it that I can get the 1065th

The list has nine elements: str() is confusiny you here.  It's just the 
same as a data frame: that has (usually) few columns and many rows.

> element of delme3 if the length is just 9? How can I get a vector of POSIX 
> elements with the same length as delme2 so that I can put it in a data.frame?

That must be a POSIXct vector, not a POSIXlt list.

> Thanks!
>
> Agus
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