On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Amy Young-King <amy.young.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am really new to dealing with Excel date and time formats to be used in R. > > I have an Excel exported data matrix in TXT format. > > One column, labeled DATE, is of the following format examples: > > > 1/8/98 1:00 > 1/8/98 23:00 > > > to mean that the observation was made on 1st of August 1998 at 1AM and > another > observation made at 11PM. This is a time series example. > > How do I read in this column in R and convert it most appropriately in a > format that > R can handle and be utilized in fitting a time series model to the data? > > Thank you for your answers! >
For reading Excel files see this page: http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=tips:data-io:ms_windows and also read the Other Applications section of the date and time article in R News 4/1. Regarding your other questions google for: Time Series CRAN Task View -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
