On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Ye Lin <ye...@lbl.gov> wrote: >> Hey All, >> >> I want to duplicate the records but add a new "timestamp" columns as new >> time series, but I dont know how to do that. >> >> my dataset(dat1) looks like this: >> >> No. TimeStamp Var1 >> >> 1 2012-06-18 06:00:00 3 >> 2 2012-06-18 06:06:00 4 >> >> I use this code to do duplication: >> >> dat1[rep(1:nrow(dat1),each=3),] >> >> But I dont know how to change the timeStamp. I would like the final output >> be sth like this: >> >> No. TimeStamp Var1 >> >> 1 2012-06-18 06:00:00 3 >> 2 2012-06-18 06:02:00 3 >> 3 2012-06-18 06:04:00 3 >> 4 2012-06-18 06:06:00 4 >> 5 2012-06-18 06:08:00 4 >> 6 2012-06-18 06:10:00 4 >> >> So basically the old time interval is 6 min, but the new ones I would like >> to have is 2 min. > > Assuming dat2 is the result of the line of R code above that does the > replication and that TimeStamp is of POSIXct class try this: >
That should be: dat2$TimeStamp <- dat2$TimeStamp + 60 * seq(0, 4, 2)) -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.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.