[R] POSIXlt error

Wed Jul 14 08:22:53 CEST 2010

OK, I thought I was being explicit enough, but here goes.  The out of the first five rows of mu dataframe is:
                 Time hour lev.morgan lev.lock2 lev.lock1   flow direction velocity bearing    velcat
1 2009-07-06 15:00:00   15      3.266     3.274     3.240 1710.6    180.28    4.352     S   (-0.01,5]
2 2009-07-06 16:00:00   16      3.268     3.272     3.240 1441.8    192.34    5.496     SSW    (5,10]
3 2009-07-06 17:00:00   17      3.268     3.271     3.240 1300.1    202.29    2.695     SSW (-0.01,5]
4 2009-07-06 18:00:00   18      3.267     3.274     3.241 1099.1    237.16    2.035     WSW (-0.01,5]
5 2009-07-06 19:00:00   19      3.265     3.277     3.243  986.6    237.58    0.896     WSW (-0.01,5]
6 2009-07-06 20:00:00   20      3.266     3.281     3.242 1237.6    205.69    1.257     SSW (-0.01,5]

Time is POSIXct with CST e.g. "2009-07-06 15:00:00 CST"

I hope that makes it clearer what the data looks like

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-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley
Sent: Wednesday, 14 July 2010 3:29 PM
To: Ian Seow
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] POSIXlt error

Check out your timezone.  Did something change on that day?
You omitted the time, so it is trying to make sense of

"1982-01-01 00:00"

According to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Standard_Time

that time did not exist in that time zone (which I am guessing is the
one your computer is set to.  If I use TZ=Singapore I get

> as.POSIXlt("1982-01-01")
Error in as.POSIXlt.character("1982-01-01") :
   character string is not in a standard unambiguous format
> as.POSIXlt("1982-01-01 00:00")
Error in as.POSIXlt.character("1982-01-01 00:00") :
   character string is not in a standard unambiguous format
> as.POSIXlt("1982-01-01 01:00")
[1] "1982-01-01 01:00:00 SGT"
> x <- as.POSIXlt("1982-01-01 01:00")
> x - 60*60 # an hour earlier
[1] "1981-12-31 23:30:00 SGT"

On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Ian Seow wrote:

> Oops, sorry! Here it is:
>
> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Singapore.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Singapore.1252
> LC_MONETARY=English_Singapore.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_Singapore.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] grDevices datasets  splines   graphics  stats     tcltk     utils
> methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] svSocket_0.9-48 TinnR_1.0.3     R2HTML_2.1      Hmisc_3.8-2
> survival_2.35-8
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] cluster_1.12.3 grid_2.11.1    lattice_0.18-8 svMisc_0.9-57  tools_2.11.1
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Erik Iverson <eriki at ccbr.umn.edu> wrote:
>
>> Do you care to share your sessionInfo() , as the Posting Guide asks?
>>
>> I cannot reproduce on:
>>
>> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
>> i486-pc-linux-gnu
>>
>>
>>
>> On 07/13/2010 09:07 PM, Ian Seow wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, I'm encountering a strange error in POSIXlt... anyone got a clue on
>>> this?
>>>
>>>  as.POSIXlt("1982-01-01")
>>>>
>>> Error in as.POSIXlt.character("1982-01-01") :
>>>   character string is not in a standard unambiguous format
>>>
>>>> as.POSIXlt("1992-01-01")
>>>>
>>> [1] "1992-01-01"
>>>
>>>> as.POSIXlt("1972-01-01")
>>>>
>>> [1] "1972-01-01"
>>>
>>>> as.POSIXlt("1962-01-01")
>>>>
>>> [1] "1962-01-01"
>>>
>>
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