[R] extract date time from a text file

[Joris Meys]

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There's probably another way using readLines or so to do it in one
try, but say you used :
frame <- read.delim("some_file.ext")

then

library(chron)
newframe$name <- paste(frame[,3],frame[,4])
newframe$dates <- chron(frame[,1],frame[,2],format=c(dates = "y/m/d",
times = "h:m:s"))

Cheers
Joris

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:58 PM, 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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