Try: op <- options(digits.secs=4) TimeCC <- as.POSIXct(paste0(paste(teste[,1],teste[,2]), sub("^0","",teste[,3])),format="%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%OS") options(op) #reset
A.K. On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 10:29 AM, Raoni Rodrigues <caciquesamu...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello all, I'm having a problem with data handling. My input data is (dput in the after the signature): Date Time Fraction 06/19/13 22:15:39 0.3205 06/19/13 22:15:44 0.3205 06/19/13 22:15:49 0.3205 06/19/13 22:15:54 0.3205 06/19/13 22:15:59 0.3205 06/19/13 22:16:09 0.3205 Date in format month/day/year, Time in HH:MM:SS and fraction represents the fractions of seconds. I need to have a vector in a format year-month-day hh:mm:ss.0000. Or, in format: format = "%F %H:%M:%OS4", as POSIXct class. I made the the conversion step-by-step to have sure that nothing is missed in the way: > options (digits.sec = 4) > getOption ("digits.sec") [1] 4 > teste$Date1 = as.Date (teste$Date, format = "%m/%d/%y") > class (teste$Date1) [1] "Date" > teste$Fraction = sub ("0.", "", teste$Fraction) > teste$TimeC = paste (teste$Time, teste$Fraction, sep = ".") > teste$TimeCC = paste (teste$Date1, teste$TimeC) > head (teste) Date Time Fraction Date1 TimeC TimeCC 1 06/19/13 22:15:39 .325 2013-06-19 22:15:39.325 2013-06-19 22:15:39.3205 2 06/19/13 22:15:44 .325 2013-06-19 22:15:44.325 2013-06-19 22:15:44.3205 3 06/19/13 22:15:49 .325 2013-06-19 22:15:49.325 2013-06-19 22:15:49.3205 4 06/19/13 22:15:54 .325 2013-06-19 22:15:54.325 2013-06-19 22:15:54.3205 5 06/19/13 22:15:59 .325 2013-06-19 22:15:59.325 2013-06-19 22:15:59.3205 6 06/19/13 22:16:09 .325 2013-06-19 22:16:09.325 2013-06-19 22:16:09.3205 So far so well. The problem is when I tried to convert to POSIXct class. If I use just: teste$TimeCC = format (teste$TimeCC, format = "%F %H:%M:%OS4") teste$TimeCC = as.POSIXct (teste$TimeCC) I lost the fraction of seconds. If I use: teste$TimeCC = as.POSIXct(strptime (teste$TimeCC, format = "%F %H:%M:%OS4")) I lost all information and get just <NA>. Thanks in advanced, -- Raoni Rosa Rodrigues Research Associate of Fish Transposition Center CTPeixes Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG Brasil rodrigues.ra...@gmail.com dput of input data structure(list(Date = c("06/19/13", "06/19/13", "06/19/13", "06/19/13", "06/19/13", "06/19/13"), Time = c("22:15:39", "22:15:44", "22:15:49", "22:15:54", "22:15:59", "22:16:09"), Fraction = c("0.3205", "0.3205", "0.3205", "0.3205", "0.3205", "0.3205")), .Names = c("Date", "Time", "Fraction"), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class = "data.frame") [[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.