Ken, not sure, but you might try
data.frame(whatever1=x[,1],whatever2=y) this should maintain the classes of the vectors. I'm guessing that y and x are of different classes. From ?cbind: "For the default method, a matrix combining the ... argument. The type of a matrix result determined from the highest type of any of the inputs in the hierarchy raw < logical < integer < real < complex < character < list " Matt On Feb 8, 2008 2:59 PM, Ken Spriggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would like to create a new dataframe from the DateTime column of an > existing dataframe and a numeric vector. When I do cbind(x[,1], y) the > result is: > > [1,] 1199370600 12.500 > [2,] 1199371200 69.375 > [3,] 1199371800 23.750 > > where the first column you see used to look like: > "2008-01-03 08:30:00 Central Standard Time" > "2008-01-03 08:40:00 Central Standard Time" > "2008-01-03 08:50:00 Central Standard Time" > > How do I keep the DateTime from getting converted? I've tried as.POSIXct() > to convert it back (no luck). > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/When-I-cbind-the-POSIXct-gets-lost-tp15364786p15364786.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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. > -- Matthew C Keller Asst. Professor of Psychology University of Colorado at Boulder www.matthewckeller.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.
