Re: [R] calculating seconds

2013-02-20 Thread S Ellison
> I'm looking at some data which has the time in seconds since > 1992/10/8, > 15:15:42.5 > > Are there any functions currently available to "translate" > this or should I just do my own? strptime() goes from date formats to seconds. For going the other way, see ?DateTimeClasses for a lot of i

Re: [R] calculating seconds

2013-02-19 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Your subject line says you want to calculate seconds... the body of your message says you want to "translate" seconds (to something unspecified). I am not sure how we are supposed to respond. Can you give us a short example of what you have and what you want using R syntax? -

Re: [R] calculating seconds

2013-02-19 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 19.02.2013 18:52, Erin Hodgess wrote: Dear R People: I'm looking at some data which has the time in seconds since 1992/10/8, 15:15:42.5 Just ask R to strptime("1992/10/8,15:15:42.5", "%Y/%m/%d,%H:%M:%OS") + NumberOfSeconds and you get the actual date after the given amount of NumberOfSe

[R] calculating seconds

2013-02-19 Thread Erin Hodgess
Dear R People: I'm looking at some data which has the time in seconds since 1992/10/8, 15:15:42.5 Are there any functions currently available to "translate" this or should I just do my own? I figured that I'd check first. Thanks, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Compute