[R] extract date time from a text file

[jim holtman]

You data has 4 fields (separated  by blanks) and that is what you are
reading.  Just write some code to combine the fields:

newDF <- data.frame(time=as.POSIXct(paste(oldDF[[1]], oldDF[[2]]),
name=paste(oldDF[[3]], oldDF[[4]]))

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Sebastian Kruk
<residuo.solow at gmail.com> wrote:
> I a have a text file where every line is like that:
>
> "2007-12-03 13:50:17 Juan Perez"
> ("yy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss First Name Second Name")
>
> I would like to make a data frame with two column one for date and the
> other one for name.
>
> When I use read.delim it was transformed in a data frame with 4 colums.
>
> Bye,
>
> Sebastián.
>
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Jim Holtman
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