Questions tagged [chron]

An R package for Chronological objects which can handle dates and times, written by David James.

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How can I transform a specific time, to a

I want to transform a string column, into a proper format. Normally I would do something like: print(df$Time) > "00:00:01" as.POSIXct(df$Time,format="%H:%M:%S") However, my data is strange. It looks like this: print(df$Time) 850a" "823a" NA …
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TaskscheduleR job returns fetch.write_memory error but works as a local job in RStudio on a virtual machine

I'm trying to set up an automated job that builds an csv file (by pulling aggregates from multiple MySQL databases) and sends an email out on a daily schedule. The entire script works as a local job (via RStudio jobs v1.2.1335) if the script is run…
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Plotting a Histogram of Time Values where the x-axis ranges from 17:30 to 7:30

I have made this question a reproducible example. Here is a portion of my data frame: df <- structure(list(`Room Out Date` = c("2018-07-08", "2018-07-08", "2018-07-08", "2018-07-09", "2018-07-09", "2018-07-09", "2018-07-09", …
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converting times using Chron not working as intended

I have the following vector containing time stamps. These time stamps are recorded as factors. times<-as.factor(c("8:24", "9:17","11:52","1:49","9:36")) I want to convert them in to time objects using the chron package. And I have used the…
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looping in order to create dummy variables R

I want to make a dataframe with a dummy variable that shows 1 when the time of incident is between a range of time (hours). That is what I made: library(chron) library(stringr) var <- c("A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F") times <- c("22:40:20",…
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Finding previous month end date

From date 10/31/2018, I want to obtain 09/30/2018. I tried: PREV.PROD.DATE<-seq.Date(from=as.Date(chron("10/31/2018")),length=2,by="-1 months") but it returns: "2018-10-31" "2018-10-01" How can I obtain 09/30 instead of 10/01? Notes: I would like…
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Recording timer data - how to measure milliseconds without the date?

I have a list of times in a basketball game. Here are some sample time values to show how they're stored: "11:44.0", "10:03.0", "8:35.0", "6:19.0", "0:49.9", "0:03.9" (Minutes - no leading 0):(Seconds - with leading 0).(Tenths of a second) It…
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date variables in R

I have dates that are before 1969 stored as a character and want to change them to a date column. This is the code I've tried options(chron.year.expand = function (y, cut.off = 19, century = c(1900, 2000), ...) { …
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using chron package to format data in R

at the moment I'm trying to convert a string into time-format. e.g. my string looks like following: time <- '12:00'. I already tried to use the chron-Package. And my code looks like following: time <- paste(time,':00', sep = '') time <-…
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Convert select character variables to times in data frame in R

I'm trying to change several variables within a data frame that are currently characters into time. I've imported only the variables I want from a csv file using ids_dates_times <- read.csv("filename", header=TRUE, na.strings=c(".",NA), …
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Convert time (24 hours format) in character type to time in R

I have a data frame with time in character format, I need to convert it into time format. I have tried using strptime and POSIXct but it adds the date also. I just need the time. For e.g.: TRK_DEP_TIME <- c("22:00", "14:30"......) _____ character…
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How to get chron to convert a vector of Excel serial dates

I am trying to convert an element of a matrix from what were Excel serial dates to a vector of Date objects before using plot(). I can create a vetor and I get the expected result: library(chron) # set date origin as defined in Excel …
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Conditional Filling and Formatting NAs in R

I downloaded the play-by-play from last year's Superbowl, and am having trouble conditionally replacing and formatting NAs. I am primary concerned with the following two vectors in my dataframe: > superbowl$Quarter [1] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…
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Plotting with ggplot and chron - label change to %H:%M:%S

I am working with some chron data of the class 'times' and am plotting it in a scatter plot. However, I want the labeling to be in %H:%M:%S format for the variable on the x axis Tim.V. Simply adding scale_x_continuous(labels = "%H:%M:%S") to the…
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How to filter HadISST raster data in a range of months in R?

I'm trying to study the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) correlation with tropical-cyclone activity in a certain range of months. The data I'm using is from the Hadley Centre (in NetCDF format) using the get_anual_ssts() function from the hadsstR…