[R] Chron / zoo index problem

[Gabor Grothendieck]

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On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:04 AM, <rory.winston at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have an irregular zoo series, where the time index looks like the
> following:
>
>> head(time(l.zoo))
>
> [1] "2009-06-15 01:44:20.802 GMT" "2009-06-15 01:44:20.812 GMT" "2009-06-15
> 01:44:20.837 GMT" "2009-06-15 01:44:20.848 GMT" "2009-06-15 06:00:01.320
> GMT"
> [6] "2009-06-15 06:00:01.330 GMT"
>
>> as.numeric(head(time(l.zoo)))
>
> [1] 1245030261 1245030261 1245030261 1245030261 1245045601 1245045601
>
>> epoch + as.numeric(head(time(l.zoo)))
>
> [1] "2009-06-15 01:44:20.802 GMT" "2009-06-15 01:44:20.812 GMT" "2009-06-15
> 01:44:20.837 GMT" "2009-06-15 01:44:20.848 GMT" "2009-06-15 06:00:01.320
> GMT"
> [6] "2009-06-15 06:00:01.330 GMT"
>
>
> What I would like to do is to run aggregate() over this zoo series, and
> compute a statistic over say a 5-minute or 1-hour interval. However, I cant
> seem to get chron() to figure out the right dates:
>
>> chron(as.numeric(head(time(l.zoo))))
>
> [1] (01/28/47 19:14:53) (01/28/47 19:29:17) (01/28/47 20:05:17) (01/28/47
> 20:21:07) (01/28/89 07:40:48) (01/28/89 07:55:12)
>
>> epoch
> [1] "1970-01-01 GMT"
>
>
>> chron(as.numeric(head(time(l.zoo))), origin.=epoch)
> [1] (12/20/64 19:14:53) (12/20/64 19:29:17) (12/20/64 20:05:17) (12/20/64
> 20:21:07) (12/22/06 07:40:48) (12/22/06 07:55:12)
>
> Does anyone know what I am doing wrong here?
>
> Cheers
> -- Rory
>
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