Hi, Just to add:
As you have more columns of data, it would be better to do in this way: Time1<-as.POSIXct("2013-01-01 00:00:00") tseq<-seq(Time1,length.out=50,by="secs") dat2<-data.frame(TIME=tseq,matrix(NA,nrow=50,ncol=3)) #change nrow and ncol names(dat2)[-1]<-paste("Data",1:3,sep="") dat3<-read.table(text=" ID Date TIME Data1 Data2 Data3 1 2013-01-01 00:00:00 34 53 66 2 2013-01-01 00:00:01 333 4 5 3 2013-01-01 00:00:05 333 4 5 4 2013-01-01 00:00:20 34 63 66 5 2013-01-01 00:00:25 433 5 8 6 2013-01-01 00:00:26 533 8 5 ",sep="",stringsAsFactors=FALSE,header=TRUE) dat4<-data.frame(TIME=as.POSIXct(paste(dat3$Date,dat3$TIME)),dat3[,4:6]) dat2[,-1][dat2[,1]%in%dat4[,1],]<-dat4[,-1] head(dat2) # TIME Data1 Data2 Data3 #1 2013-01-01 00:00:00 34 53 66 #2 2013-01-01 00:00:01 333 4 5 #3 2013-01-01 00:00:02 NA NA NA #4 2013-01-01 00:00:03 NA NA NA #5 2013-01-01 00:00:04 NA NA NA #6 2013-01-01 00:00:05 333 4 5 A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: Simonas Kecorius <simolas2...@gmail.com> To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2013 8:54 AM Subject: [R] Need help with time series data Dear R users, Could you share your knowledge on following problem: Suppose we have dataframe: ID TIME Data1 Data2 Data3 ........... Data700 1. 2013-01-01 00:00:00 34 53 66 ............ 55 2. 2013-01-01 00:00:01 333 4 5 ............ 50 3. 2013-01-01 00:00:02 and so on 4. 2013-01-01 00:00:03 and so on 5. 2013-01-01 03:00:45 44 33 4 ............. 66 6. 2013-01-01 03:00:46 46 35 7 ............. 6 Notice that between ID 4 and ID 5 there is a gap, that instrument was turned off. It started automatically in 2013-01-01 03:00:45 and continues till the next turn off. What I need R to do, is to find these gaps, and insert missing time values with empty Data lines to have no gaps in time and empty (or NA) values in data place: ID TIME Data1 Data2 Data3 ........... Data700 1. 2013-01-01 00:00:00 34 53 66 ............ 55 2. 2013-01-01 00:00:01 333 4 5 ............ 50 3. 2013-01-01 00:00:02 and so on 4. 2013-01-01 00:00:03 and so on 5. 2013-01-01 00:00:04 <- time with empty (or NA) data values inserted 6. 2013-01-01 00:00:05 <- time with empty (or NA) data values inserted 7. 2013-01-01 00:00:06 <- time with empty (or NA) data values inserted ................ and so on, until the time when instrument works again: 2013-01-01 03:00:45 44 33 4 ............. 66 2013-01-01 03:00:46 46 35 7 ............. 6 All your suggestions will be appreciated! Simonas Kecorius ** [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.