On 18/01/2013, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 7:31 AM, e-letter <inp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 16/01/2013, Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Like this? >>> >>> >>> data1 <- read.table(text = " >>> 01:23:40 5 >>> 01:23:45 10 >>> 01:23:50 12 >>> 01:23:55 7 >>> ") >>> >>> data2 <- read.table(text = " >>> 01:23:42 >>> 01:23:47 >>> 01:23:51 >>> 01:23:54 >>> ") >>> >>> approx(as.POSIXct(data1$V1, format = "%H:%M:%S"), y = data1$V2, xout = >>> as.POSIXct(data2$V1, format = "%H:%M:%S")) >>> >> >> Thanks. I have later realised that if data frames are unequal (i.e. >> data2edit >> >> 01:23:42 >> 01:23:47 >> 01:23:51 >> 01:23:54 >> 01:23:58 >> 01:23:59 >> >> the result for 'y' is >> >> $y >> [1] NA NA NA NA NA NA >> >> Similar error occurs with the 'zoo' package. > > > its not clear precisely what you tried with zoo but have a look at this: > >> data1 <- " > + 01:23:40 5 > + 01:23:45 10 > + 01:23:50 12 > + 01:23:55 7" >> >> data2 <- " > + 01:23:42 > + 01:23:47 > + 01:23:51 > + 01:23:54" >> >> library(zoo) >> library(chron) >> z1 <- read.zoo(text = data1, FUN = times) >> z2 <- read.zoo(text = data2, FUN = times) >> na.approx(z1, xout = time(z2)) > 01:23:42 01:23:47 01:23:51 01:23:54 > 7.0 10.8 11.0 8.0 >
Latest error: > data1 V1 V2 1 01:23:40 5 2 01:23:45 10 3 01:23:50 12 4 01:23:55 7 > data2 V1 1 01:23:42 2 01:23:47 3 01:23:51 4 01:23:54 5 01:23:58 6 01:23:59 > data1zoo<-read.zoo(text=data1,FUN=times) Error in textConnection(text) : invalid 'text' argument > data2zoo<-read.zoo(text=data2,FUN=times) Error in textConnection(text) : invalid 'text' argument Then I tried to create objects differently: data1zoo<-read.zoo('test1.txt',FUN=times) > data1zoo 01:23:40 01:23:45 01:23:50 01:23:55 5 10 12 7 data2zoo<-read.zoo('test2.txt',FUN=times) > data2zoo 01:23:42 01:23:47 01:23:51 01:23:54 01:23:58 01:23:59 > data3<-(na.approx(merge(data1zoo,data2zoo),time(data1zoo))) Error in na.approx.default(object, x = x, xout = xout, na.rm = FALSE, : x and index must have the same length ______________________________________________ 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.