[R] From time-strings to Unix-Epoche-time?

[jim holtman]

If you are using POSIXct, just 'unclass' the value:

> x <- as.POSIXct('2008-09-12 09:00')
> str(x)
 POSIXct[1:1], format: "2008-09-12 09:00:00"
> unclass(x)
[1] 1221210000
attr(,"tzone")
[1] ""


On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Oliver Bandel
<oliver at first.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I have strings with date-/time-data from a logfile.
>
> For a sort-by-time (and other time-related analysis)
> I need something to convert the
> times to the Unix-epoche-time (better also with parts
> of seconds).
>
> Is there something that does that job (or a similar conversion)
> in R?
>
> TIA,
>   Oliver Bandel
>
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