Re: [R] Converting characters back to Date and Time

2021-09-01 Thread PIKAL Petr
rom: R-help On Behalf Of Eliza Botto > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2021 10:26 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Converting characters back to Date and Time > > DeaR useR, > > I read an excel column in R having Date and time (written in the same cell) as > follow, >

Re: [R] Converting characters back to Date and Time

2021-08-31 Thread Enrico Schumann
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021, Eliza Botto writes: > DeaR useR, > > I read an excel column in R having Date and time (written in the same cell) > as follow, > > 06/18/18 10:00 > > 06/18/18 11:00 > > 06/18/18 12:00 > > In R environment, they are read as > > 43269.42 > > 43269.46 > > 43269.50 > > Is there a

Re: [R] Converting characters back to Date and Time

2021-08-31 Thread Andrew Simmons
Hello, I'm assuming you're reading from an "*.xlsx" file. I'm not sure which package you're using for this scenario, but my preference is 'openxlsx'. If this is the package you're using, you could set argument 'detectDates' to 'TRUE', and then it should read them correctly. FILE <- tempfile(fil

[R] Converting characters back to Date and Time

2021-08-31 Thread Eliza Botto
DeaR useR, I read an excel column in R having Date and time (written in the same cell) as follow, 06/18/18 10:00 06/18/18 11:00 06/18/18 12:00 In R environment, they are read as 43269.42 43269.46 43269.50 Is there a way to covert these characters back to the original format? Thank-you ve