On 7/13/05, Young Cho <iidn01@yahoo.com> wrote: 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a column of a dataframe which has time stamps
> like:
> 
> > eh$t[1]
> [1] 06/05/2005 01:15:25
> 
> and was wondering how to convert it to chron variable.
> Thanks a lot.

   Try this:

# test data frame eh containing a factor variable t
eh <- data.frame(t = c("06/05/2005 01:15:25", "06/07/2005 01:15:25"))

# substring converts factor to character and extracts substring
chron(dates = substring(eh$t, 1, 10), times = substring(eh$t, 12))

See ?chron for more info. There is an article on dates in
R News 4/1 and although it does not specifically answer this
question it may be useful with chron and also provides a 
reference to more chron info elsewhere.

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