I have a dataframe that looks like the below. I want to convert the Captured.Time field to a date object. but some of the entries are not properly formated and I get a message saying Error in as.POSIXlt.character(as.character(x), ...) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format.
So I want to write a function that will convert or delete. I could not figure out how to do that and so I tried to write a function that would convert or replace with text like noDateHere but that did not work either. Can anyone tell me how to accomplish this? Here is what I tried: convertOrOmit=function(dt){tryCatch(as.POSIXct(dt),error=print("noDateHere"))} X Captured.Time Latitude Longitude Value Unit Location.Name 1 12696963 2012-08-07 11:00:51 39.16094 140.4883 45 cpm 2 2056198 2013-11-10 03:14:19 32.84428 -117.2240 47 cpm 3 727957 2014-01-28 04:47:54 35.80605 139.3789 28 cpm 4 2864220 2013-10-22 19:41:53 35.07816 -106.6123 50 cpm 5 5787688 2013-06-13 04:13:57 35.83174 136.2027 35 cpm 6 6191345 2013-05-28 06:48:34 34.78944 137.9496 32 cpm Device.ID MD5Sum Height Surface Radiation 1 NA b0465019b46289b82450c39ce1397b98 NA NA 2 NA 8fa14a1227d23e6cf286785e8843cc39 NA NA 3 NA c72cd7f9cedd59cf6e6892049dfbf9a0 NA NA 4 NA aca82e39ff9098e45eea04f661f68dc7 NA NA 5 NA cc9394e6dceb91f0e0de97cc2db57e19 NA NA 6 NA f18d194a41e1448c7776dbeba8b351af NA NA Uploaded.Time Loader.ID 1 2012-08-13 19:16:10.18555 10832 2 2013-12-05 01:47:24.154971 13958 3 2014-01-29 22:55:39.138043 14451 4 2013-10-26 13:50:17.629869 13743 5 2013-06-16 16:17:21.148239 12930 6 2013-06-04 23:31:55.455323 12841 [[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.