No data sample was provided, so with a verbal description of the problem comes a verbal answer.
I would use expand.grid to build a set of all desired date/time combinations, then use the merge function to select rows in your actual data. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. jck13 <jennake...@hotmail.com> wrote: >Hello, > >I have a csv with 5months of hourly data for 4 years. I would like to >get >9am, 12pm and 3pm from each day and create a subset or a new data >frame >that I can analyze. The time are from hour 0-23 for each day. >I am not sure how to create a loop which will take out each of these >hours >and create a subset. > >I was thinking of doing a for loop using the row number since: >9am= row 10 >12pm= row 13 >3pm= row 16 > >trying to loop through to extract these 3 times each day. > >n=length(date_stamp) > >for (i in i:n) { >m= 10 >i= 1 >new1= mv[m,] >i= i+1 >m= m+3 >##m+18 at row 16? >} > >I need some help creating a loop through this! Thank you! > > >-- >View this message in context: >http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Selecting-3-different-hours-in-a-day-tp4015010p4015010.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. ______________________________________________ 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.