Dear R-users, I have these data:
head(balok, 10); tail(balok, 10) Date Time Rain.mm 1 30/7/2008 9:00:00 0 2 30/7/2008 10:00:00 0 3 30/7/2008 11:00:00 0 4 30/7/2008 12:00:00 0 5 30/7/2008 13:00:00 0 6 30/7/2008 14:00:00 0 7 30/7/2008 15:00:00 0 8 30/7/2008 16:00:00 0 9 30/7/2008 17:00:00 0 10 30/7/2008 18:00:00 0 Date Time Rain.mm 63667 4/11/2015 3:00:00 0 63668 4/11/2015 4:00:00 0 63669 4/11/2015 5:00:00 0 63670 4/11/2015 6:00:00 0 63671 4/11/2015 7:00:00 0 63672 4/11/2015 8:00:00 0 63673 4/11/2015 9:00:00 0.1 63674 4/11/2015 10:00:00 0.1 63675 4/11/2015 11:00:00 0.1 63676 4/11/2015 12:00:00 0.1? > str(balok) 'data.frame': 63676 obs. of 3 variables: $ Date : Factor w/ 2654 levels "1/1/2009","1/1/2010",..: 2056 2056 2056 2056 2056 2056 2056 2056 2056 2056 ... $ Time : Factor w/ 24 levels "1:00:00","10:00:00",..: 24 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... $ Rain.mm: Factor w/ 352 levels "0","0.0?","0.1",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... and I have change the data as follows: realdate <- as.Date(balok$Date,format="%d/%m/%Y") dfdate <- data.frame(date=realdate) year=as.numeric (format(realdate,"%Y")) month=as.numeric (format(realdate,"%m")) day=as.numeric (format(realdate,"%d")) balok2 <-cbind(dfdate,day,month,year,balok[,2:3]) colnames(balok2) head(balok2) date day month year Time Rain.mm 1 2008-07-30 30 7 2008 9:00:00 0 2 2008-07-30 30 7 2008 10:00:00 0 3 2008-07-30 30 7 2008 11:00:00 0 4 2008-07-30 30 7 2008 12:00:00 0 5 2008-07-30 30 7 2008 13:00:00 0 6 2008-07-30 30 7 2008 14:00:00 0 ... > balok3 <- balok2[,-1]; head(balok3, n=100) day month year Time Rain.mm 1 30 7 2008 9:00:00 0 2 30 7 2008 10:00:00 0 3 30 7 2008 11:00:00 0 4 30 7 2008 12:00:00 0 5 30 7 2008 13:00:00 0 6 30 7 2008 14:00:00 0 7 30 7 2008 15:00:00 0 8 30 7 2008 16:00:00 0 9 30 7 2008 17:00:00 0 10 30 7 2008 18:00:00 0 11 30 7 2008 19:00:00 0 12 30 7 2008 20:00:00 0 13 30 7 2008 21:00:00 0 14 30 7 2008 22:00:00 0 15 30 7 2008 23:00:00 0 16 30 7 2008 24:00:00 0 17 31 7 2008 1:00:00 0 18 31 7 2008 2:00:00 0 19 31 7 2008 3:00:00 0 20 31 7 2008 4:00:00 0 21 31 7 2008 5:00:00 0 22 31 7 2008 6:00:00 0 23 31 7 2008 7:00:00 0 24 31 7 2008 8:00:00 0 25 31 7 2008 9:00:00 0 26 31 7 2008 10:00:00 0 27 31 7 2008 11:00:00 0 28 31 7 2008 12:00:00 0 29 31 7 2008 13:00:00 0 30 31 7 2008 14:00:00 0 31 31 7 2008 15:00:00 0 32 31 7 2008 16:00:00 0 33 31 7 2008 17:00:00 0 34 31 7 2008 18:00:00 0 35 31 7 2008 19:00:00 0 36 31 7 2008 20:00:00 0 37 31 7 2008 21:00:00 0 38 31 7 2008 22:00:00 0 39 31 7 2008 23:00:00 0 40 31 7 2008 24:00:00 0 41 1 8 2008 1:00:00 0 42 1 8 2008 2:00:00 0 43 1 8 2008 3:00:00 0 44 1 8 2008 4:00:00 0 45 1 8 2008 5:00:00 0 46 1 8 2008 6:00:00 0 47 1 8 2008 7:00:00 0 48 1 8 2008 8:00:00 0 49 1 8 2008 9:00:00 0 50 1 8 2008 10:00:00 0 51 1 8 2008 11:00:00 0 52 1 8 2008 12:00:00 0 53 1 8 2008 13:00:00 0 54 1 8 2008 14:00:00 0 55 1 8 2008 15:00:00 0 56 1 8 2008 16:00:00 0 57 1 8 2008 17:00:00 0 58 1 8 2008 18:00:00 0 59 1 8 2008 19:00:00 0 60 1 8 2008 20:00:00 0 61 1 8 2008 21:00:00 0 62 1 8 2008 22:00:00 0 63 1 8 2008 23:00:00 0 64 1 8 2008 24:00:00 0 65 2 8 2008 1:00:00 0 66 2 8 2008 2:00:00 0 67 2 8 2008 3:00:00 0 68 2 8 2008 4:00:00 0 69 2 8 2008 5:00:00 0 70 2 8 2008 6:00:00 0 71 2 8 2008 7:00:00 0 72 2 8 2008 8:00:00 0 73 2 8 2008 9:00:00 0 74 2 8 2008 10:00:00 0 75 2 8 2008 11:00:00 0 76 2 8 2008 12:00:00 0 77 2 8 2008 13:00:00 0 78 2 8 2008 14:00:00 0 79 2 8 2008 15:00:00 0 80 2 8 2008 16:00:00 0 81 2 8 2008 17:00:00 0 82 2 8 2008 18:00:00 0 83 2 8 2008 19:00:00 0 84 2 8 2008 20:00:00 0 85 2 8 2008 21:00:00 0 86 2 8 2008 22:00:00 0 87 2 8 2008 23:00:00 0 88 2 8 2008 24:00:00 11.1 89 3 8 2008 1:00:00 0.4 90 3 8 2008 2:00:00 0 91 3 8 2008 3:00:00 0 92 3 8 2008 4:00:00 0 93 3 8 2008 5:00:00 0 94 3 8 2008 6:00:00 0 95 3 8 2008 7:00:00 0 96 3 8 2008 8:00:00 0 97 3 8 2008 9:00:00 0 98 3 8 2008 10:00:00 0 99 3 8 2008 11:00:00 0 100 3 8 2008 12:00:00 0 The rainfall data is in hourly unit, and I would like to sum the Rain.mm according to month. I tried to use aggregate(), but I got this message: dt <- balok4 str(dt) aggbalok <- aggregate(dt[,5], by=dt[,c(1,4)],FUN=sum, na.rm=TRUE) aggbalok Error in Summary.factor(1L, na.rm = TRUE) : sum not meaningful for factors Thank you so much for any help given. Roslina [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.