[R] to convert a character string in time

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try this (and see R News 4/1):

> library(chron)
> tt <- times(paste("5:20", "00", sep = ":")); tt
[1] 05:20:00
> tt + 12/24 # add 12 hours
[1] 17:20:00

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:27 AM, karine heerah <karine.heerah at hotmail.fr> wrote:
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> hi,
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> I have my data time expressed in character string exple "5:20" (hour:min) and i want to convert these in times recognized by R. I have tried the POSIXct function:
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> balise07$Hour <- as.POSXIct(balise07$Hour)
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> but it didn't work.
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> Do you know why? Do you know how i can convert my string character in a real time?
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> Thanks
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> Karine HEERAH
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