[R] date and time

[R. Michael Weylandt]

Good afternoon Robert,

Suppose you have your date and time in characters like this:

d.start = "2008-04-11"
t.start = "22:00:00"

d.end = "2008-04-12"
t.end = "15:00:00"

then use POSIXct to convert them to a unified time object:

start <- as.POSIXct(paste(d.start, t.start))
end <- as.POSIXct(paste(d.end, t.end))

Then simply use seq() on your objects, here:

OUT <- seq(start, end, by = 5) # 5 second steps.

Hope this helps,

(Robert) Michael Weylandt

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:02 PM, threshold <r.kozarski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R users,
>
> I got date and time as two separate characters
> [1] "2008-04-11"
> [1] "22:00:00"
>
> which correspond to my starting point in time domain.
>
> Now I need to produce series over, 5 sec epochs up to end point, say:
> [1] "2008-04-12"
> [1] "23:00:00"
>
> So something like
> 2008-04-11 22:00:00
> 2008-04-11 22:00:05
> 2008-04-11 22:00:10
> .
> .
> .
> 2008-04-12 23:00:00
>
> Is there any strightforward way to do it? Any suggestions?
>
> Best, robert
>
>
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