Sarah, Thank you. Yes, now as.POSIXct works. But the ggplot command I was told to use yields an Error message, and there is no output plot. Please help me. Greg > library(ggplot2) > myDat <- read.table(text = + "datetime + 2021-03-11 10:00:00 + 2021-03-11 14:17:00 + 2021-03-12 05:16:46 + 2021-03-12 09:17:02 + 2021-03-12 13:31:43 + 2021-03-12 22:00:32 + 2021-03-13 09:21:43", + sep = ",", header = TRUE) > head(myDat) datetime 1 2021-03-11 10:00:00 2 2021-03-11 14:17:00 3 2021-03-12 05:16:46 4 2021-03-12 09:17:02 5 2021-03-12 13:31:43 6 2021-03-12 22:00:32 > myDat$datetime <- as.POSIXct(myDat$datetime, tz = "", format ="%Y-%M-%d > %H:%M:%OS”) > ggplot(myDat, aes(x=datetime, y = Y_Var)) + geom_point() Error in FUN(X[[i]], ...) : object 'Y_Var' not found
> On Mar 16, 2021, at 9:36 AM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > It doesn't have anything to do with having a Mac - you have POSIX. > > It's because something is wrong with your data import. Looking at the > head() output you provided, it looks like your data file does NOT have > a header, because there's no datetime column, and the column name is > actually X2021.03.11.10.00.0 > > So you specified a nonexistent column, and got a zero-length answer. > > With correct specification, the as.POSIXct function works as expected on Mac: > > myDat <- read.table(text = > "datetime > 2021-03-11 10:00:00 > 2021-03-11 14:17:00 > 2021-03-12 05:16:46 > 2021-03-12 09:17:02 > 2021-03-12 13:31:43 > 2021-03-12 22:00:32 > 2021-03-13 09:21:43", > sep = ",", header = TRUE) > > myDat$datetime <- as.POSIXct(myDat$datetime, tz = "", format = > "%Y-%M-%d %H:%M:%OS") > > Sarah > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 9:26 AM Gregory Coats via R-help > <r-help@r-project.org> wrote: >> >> My computer is an Apple MacBook. I do not have POSIX. >> The command >> myDat$datetime <- as.POSIXct(myDat$datetime, tz = "", format = "%Y-%M-%d >> %H:%M:%OS") >> yields the error >> Error in `$<-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, datetime, value = numeric(0)) : >> replacement has 0 rows, data has 13 >> Please advise, How to proceed? >> Greg Coats >> >>> library(ggplot2) >>> # Read a txt file on the Desktop, named "myDat.txt" >>> myDat <- read.delim("~/Desktop/myDat.txt", header = TRUE, sep = ",") >>> head(myDat) >> X2021.03.11.10.00.00 >> 1 2021-03-11 14:17:00 >> 2 2021-03-12 05:16:46 >> 3 2021-03-12 09:17:02 >> 4 2021-03-12 13:31:43 >> 5 2021-03-12 22:00:32 >> 6 2021-03-13 09:21:43 >>> # convert data to date time object >>> myDat$datetime <- as.POSIXct(myDat$datetime, tz = "", format = "%Y-%M-%d >>> %H:%M:%OS") >> Error in `$<-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, datetime, value = numeric(0)) : >> replacement has 0 rows, data has 13 >>> >> [[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. > -- > Sarah Goslee (she/her) > http://www.numberwright.com [[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.