Thanks! I think it now works after I changed the time zone and language settings on PC. It seems when the system was under some other languages other than english, it reads the time a bit differently. Not sure if it was the reason, but thanks for your help.
Cheers, Carol On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Carol Gao <carol.g...@gmail.com> wrote: > that's weird. I opened a new R window and paste your code, it turns up > showing > > > anz1 <- data.frame(Date.G = c("01-DEC-2008", > "01-DEC-2008","02-DEC-2008","03-DEC-2008","04-DEC-2008"), > > + Time.G = > c("00:03:57.398","00:04:03.778","00:04:38.639","00:04:38.639","00:04:38.639")) > > > > Time <- strptime(paste(anz1$Date.G, anz1$Time.G), '%d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S') > > > modifyList(Time, list(hour = Time$hour + 11)) > [1] NA NA NA NA NA > > What could possibly be the reason for that? > > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Henrique Dallazuanna > <www...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Carol Gao <carol.g...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I tried your new lines with some random time, it seems to be working >>> perfectly well, just as follows: >>> > z <- strptime("20/2/06 23:16:16.683", "%d/%m/%y %H:%M:%OS") >>> > modifyList(z, list(hour = z$hour + 11)) >>> [1] "2006-02-21 10:16:16" >>> >>> Now it seems that I have some problem with my Time vector. As Time was >>> created by the following code: >>> Time <- paste(anz$Date.G.,anz$Time.G.) >>> The original data looks like the following with each row correspond to >>> each. >>> Date.G. >>> 01-DEC-2008 >>> 01-DEC-2008 >>> 02-DEC-2008 >>> 03-DEC-2008 >>> 04-DEC-2008 >>> ... >>> >>> Time.G. >>> 00:03:57.398 >>> 00:04:03.778 >>> 00:04:38.639 >>> 00:04:38.639 >>> 00:04:38.639 >>> ... >>> Somehow, I can't read Time in strptime(Time,"%d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%OS"). Do >>> you know what was wrong with it? >>> >> >> Why not? >> >> anz <- data.frame(Date.G = c("01-DEC-2008", >> "01-DEC-2008","02-DEC-2008","03-DEC-2008","04-DEC-2008"), >> Time.G = >> c("00:03:57.398","00:04:03.778","00:04:38.639","00:04:38.639","00:04:38.639")) >> >> Time <- strptime(paste(anz$Date.G, anz$Time.G), '%d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S') >> modifyList(Time, list(hour = Time$hour + 11)) >> >> >> >>> >>> Sorry for asking such questions, as I am quite new to R. Thanks for >>> helping me out. >>> >>> Carol >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Henrique Dallazuanna <www...@gmail.com >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> Ops, >>>> >>>> I sent to you a wrong code, try this indeed: >>>> >>>> Time2 <- strptime(Time, '%d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S') >>>> >>>> modifyList(Time2, list(hour = Time2$hour + 11)) >>>> >>>> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Carol Gao <carol.g...@gmail.com>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Appreciate it! I was trying on the code you sent, then some error codes >>>>> turned up: >>>>> >>>>> The first line runs ok, the second line: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> > modifyList(Time2, list(hour = Time2$hour + 11)) >>>>> Error in Time2$hour : $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors >>>>> >>>>> The time format I used for reading the Time vector is "%d-%b-%Y >>>>> %H:%M:%OS". Should I change any code above? >>>>> >>>>> Carol >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Henrique Dallazuanna < >>>>> www...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Try this: >>>>>> >>>>>> Time2 <- gsub("\\.*", "", tolower(Time)) >>>>>> modifyList(Time2, list(hour = Time2$hour + 11)) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Carol Gao <carol.g...@gmail.com>wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi there, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I've got a column vector in a csv file as follows, and I need to add >>>>>>> 11 >>>>>>> hours to each of them. Is there a way that I can do it? (The actual >>>>>>> file >>>>>>> size is much bigger than this.) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Time >>>>>>> "01-DEC-2008 00:00:28.611" >>>>>>> "01-DEC-2008 00:00:43.155" >>>>>>> "01-DEC-2008 00:01:06.677" >>>>>>> "01-DEC-2008 00:01:06.677" >>>>>>> "01-DEC-2008 00:01:06.677" >>>>>>> "01-DEC-2008 00:01:06.919" >>>>>>> "01-DEC-2008 00:23:46.452" >>>>>>> "02-DEC-2008 00:03:17.646" >>>>>>> "02-DEC-2008 00:03:17.652" >>>>>>> "03-DEC-2008 00:15:11.485" >>>>>>> "03-DEC-2008 00:18:44.652" >>>>>>> "03-DEC-2008 00:22:17.447" >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thank you in advance. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Carol >>>>>>> >>>>>>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ______________________________________________ >>>>>>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >>>>>>> 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. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Henrique Dallazuanna >>>>>> Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil >>>>>> 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Henrique Dallazuanna >>>> Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil >>>> 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Henrique Dallazuanna >> Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil >> 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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