Hi thanks ! that works perfectly ! now I am wodering how to create a new table ,
I run the codes: x<-read.table("C:/R/DATA.txt",colClasses=c("Date","character","integer"), header=T) DateTime<-as.POSIXct(paste(x[,1],x[,2]),format="%Y-%m-%d%H%M%S") and get : "2004-11-01 23:33:11 GMT" "2004-11-01 23:42:27 GMT" “2004-11-01 23:43:27 GMT” “2004-11-01 23:47:34 GMT” “2004-11-02 00:01:57 GMT” “2004-11-02 00:02:50 GMT” “2004-11-02 00:05:23 GMT “ “2004-11-02 00:05:46 GMT “ “2004-11-02 00:05:06 GMT” “2004-11-02 00:06:49 GMT” “2004-11-02 00:09:21 GMT” I want to create a new table which has two columns DateTime Q 2004-11-01 23:33:11 1 2004-11-01 23:42:27 1 2004-11-01 23:43:27 1 2004-11-01 23:47:34 2 2004-11-02 00:01:57 3 2004-11-02 00:02:50 10 2004-11-02 00:05:23 16 2004-11-02 00:05:46 1 2004-11-02 00:05:06 2 2004-11-02 00:06:49 1 2004-11-02 00:09:21 3 I tried cbind(DateTime,x$Q) , but it failed , I know it is a little stupid question but I still can not figure out how to get a new table like above. Any help would be greatly appreciated ! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/help-needed-for-strptime-000000-tp3309588p3310240.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.