Hi. Thanks. Actually I don't know which ones are causing problems. I cannot
search through it because it is quite large (15 million records)


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Pascal Oettli <kri...@ymail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Could you provide an example of unproperly formatted entry?
>
> Regards,
> Pascal
>
>
> On 27 February 2014 15:03, Bill <william...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> >
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> --
> Pascal Oettli
> Project Scientist
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> Yokohama, Japan
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