[R] Datetime conversion

[jim holtman]

Your problem is that 'strptime' returns an object of POSIXlt type
which is 9 elements; what you what is: ( you need a POSIXct type)

dt$new<-as.POSIXct(strptime(as.character(dt$datetime),"%d%b%Y"))

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:26 AM, premmad <mtechprem at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It works but what i need is the result also as a column .
> I tried using the following code .
> dt$new<-strptime(as.character(dt$datetime),"%d%b%Y.
> It shows the following error
>
> Error in `$<-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, "Sa_dt", value = list(sec = c(0, 0,  :
>  replacement has 9 rows, data has 14.
>
> Please help me to solve this
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