Hi again, Small typo, should be dta$date<-strptime(paste(dta$year,dta$month,dta$day,dta$hour), "%Y %m %d %H"
as I tried it both with and without the century just to check and copied the wrong line. On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:03 PM Jim Lemon <drjimle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Ogbos, > I get the correct result using strptime: > > dta$date<-strptime(paste(dta$year,dta$month,dta$day,dta$hour), > "%y %m %d %H" > ) > > dta$date > [1] "1998-05-01 02:00:00 AEST" "1998-05-01 03:00:00 AEST" > [3] "1998-05-01 04:00:00 AEST" "1998-05-01 05:00:00 AEST" > [5] "1998-05-01 06:00:00 AEST" "1998-05-01 07:00:00 AEST" > [7] "1998-05-01 08:00:00 AEST" "1998-05-01 09:00:00 AEST" > [9] "1998-05-01 10:00:00 AEST" "1998-05-01 11:00:00 AEST" > [11] "1998-05-01 12:00:00 AEST" "1998-05-01 13:00:00 AEST" > [13] "1998-05-01 14:00:00 AEST" "1998-05-01 15:00:00 AEST" > [15] "1998-05-01 16:00:00 AEST" "1998-05-01 17:00:00 AEST" > [17] "1998-05-01 18:00:00 AEST" "1998-05-01 19:00:00 AEST" > [19] "1998-05-01 20:00:00 AEST" "1998-05-01 21:00:00 AEST" > [21] "1998-05-01 22:00:00 AEST" "1998-05-01 23:00:00 AEST" > [23] "1998-05-02 00:00:00 AEST" "1998-05-02 01:00:00 AEST" > [25] "1998-05-02 02:00:00 AEST" "1998-05-02 03:00:00 AEST" > [27] "1998-05-02 04:00:00 AEST" "1998-05-02 05:00:00 AEST" > [29] "1998-05-02 06:00:00 AEST" > > Same result with > > ISOdatetime(dta$year,dta$month,dta$day,dta$hour,0,0,tz="GMT") > as.POSIXct(ISOdatetime(dta$year,dta$month,dta$day,dta$hour,0,0,tz="GMT")) > > As it should be as the lower two call strptime. I can't see from your > code why the month and day are transcribed. > > Jim ______________________________________________ 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.