Dear All,
Many thanks for all your contributions, suggestions and advice.
I find them all useful.
Best wishes
Ogbos
On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 9:35 PM Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I cannot reproduce the error but I coerce to class "Date" first.
>
>
> MOSCFD50[[1]] <- as.Date(MOSCFD50[[1]])
> names(MOSCFD50) <- c("date", "value")
>
> # Your subset
> Year <- subset(MOSCFD50, date > "1998-01-01" & date < "2005-12-31")
>
> # Another way, if there are NA's, use which(i)
> i <- MOSCFD50$date > "1998-01-01" & MOSCFD50$date < "2005-12-31"
> Year2 <- MOSCFD50[i, ]
>
> identical(Year, Year2)
> #[1] TRUE
>
>
> Data:
>
>
> MOSCFD50 <- read.table(text = "
> 1997-11-23 -2.91709629064653
> 1997-12-07 -0.960255426066815
> 1997-12-11 -1.98210752999868
> 1997-12-20 -1.10800598439855
> 1998-01-01 -1.00090115428118
> 1998-01-29 -1.03056081882709
> 1998-03-27 -0.873243859498216
> 1998-04-09 -2.06378384750109
> 1998-04-12 -2.06826431469008
> 1998-04-19 -2.49834620746286
> 1998-05-02 -6.4357083781542
> 1998-05-17 -2.25359807972754
> 1998-05-21 -2.55799006865995
> 1999-08-22 -2.25114162617707
> 1999-08-25 -1.47905397376409
> 1999-09-05 -0.641589808755325
> 1999-09-09 -0.648954682695949
> 1999-09-13 -0.726364489272492
> 1999-09-16 -1.28445236942011
> ")
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rui Barradas
>
>
> Às 20:14 de 09/09/19, Ogbos Okike escreveu:
> > Dear Bert and Jeff,
> > Thank you for looking at this.
> > I am surprised my message was not in plain text. It has been
> > configured to send message to the list in plain text earlier before.
> >
> > The data again please.
> >
> > 1997-11-23 -2.91709629064653
> > 1997-12-07 -0.960255426066815
> > 1997-12-11 -1.98210752999868
> > 1997-12-20 -1.10800598439855
> > 1998-01-01 -1.00090115428118
> > 1998-01-29 -1.03056081882709
> > 1998-03-27 -0.873243859498216
> > 1998-04-09 -2.06378384750109
> > 1998-04-12 -2.06826431469008
> > 1998-04-19 -2.49834620746286
> > 1998-05-02 -6.4357083781542
> > 1998-05-17 -2.25359807972754
> > 1998-05-21 -2.55799006865995
> > 1999-08-22 -2.25114162617707
> > 1999-08-25 -1.47905397376409
> > 1999-09-05 -0.641589808755325
> > 1999-09-09 -0.648954682695949
> > 1999-09-13 -0.726364489272492
> > 1999-09-16 -1.28445236942011
> >
> > The first column is date and the second is another data of interest.
> >
> > The date is long but note sequential. Runs randomly from 1953 to 2019.
> >
> > I would like to select any range of date from year A to year B.
> >
> > Thank you again for your help.
> > Best
> > Ogbos
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 6:18 PM Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Or the column is not named "date", or it is a factor... and the question
> >> is not posted in plain text....
> >>
> >> On September 9, 2019 9:55:48 AM PDT, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> I would guess that you first need to convert your textual dates to a
> >>> date-time object via as.date, but as you failed to provide a
> >>> reproducible
> >>> example (e.g. via dput) I may be wrong. Maybe others may have greater
> >>> insight.
> >>>
> >>> Bert Gunter
> >>>
> >>> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
> >>> and
> >>> sticking things into it."
> >>> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 8:55 AM Ogbos Okike <giftedlife2...@gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Dear Contributors,
> >>>> I have a data frame of the form:
> >>>> 1997-11-23 -2.91709629064653
> >>>> 1997-12-07 -0.960255426066815
> >>>> 1997-12-11 -1.98210752999868
> >>>> 1997-12-20 -1.10800598439855
> >>>> 1998-01-01 -1.00090115428118
> >>>> 1998-01-29 -1.03056081882709
> >>>> 1998-03-27 -0.873243859498216
> >>>> 1998-04-09 -2.06378384750109
> >>>> 1998-04-12 -2.06826431469008
> >>>> 1998-04-19 -2.49834620746286
> >>>> 1998-05-02 -6.4357083781542
> >>>> 1998-05-17 -2.25359807972754
> >>>> 1998-05-21 -2.55799006865995
> >>>> 1999-08-22 -2.25114162617707
> >>>> 1999-08-25 -1.47905397376409
> >>>> 1999-09-05 -0.641589808755325
> >>>> 1999-09-09 -0.648954682695949
> >>>> 1999-09-13 -0.726364489272492
> >>>> 1999-09-16 -1.28445236942011
> >>>>
> >>>> The events happen randomly and so the date is non-sequential. It run
> >>> form
> >>>> 1953 to 2019.
> >>>>
> >>>> I would like to select all the events/dates between 1998 to 2005.
> >>>>
> >>>> One of the things I tried is:
> >>>> Year <- subset(MOSCFD50, date > "1998-01-01" & date < "2005-12-31").
> >>>>
> >>>> But it didn't work.
> >>>>
> >>>> I would be thankful if you could please redirect me.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thank you very much.
> >>>> Best regards
> >>>> Ogbos
> >>>>
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