[R] time conversion from second to Y M D H M S format

[Berend Hasselman]

On 02-02-2012, at 19:23, R. Michael Weylandt wrote:

> It works for me as well so there's something funny on your end: please
> run the following *verbatim* (in a vanilla R session):
> 
> sink("ForRHelp.txt")
> print(sessionInfo())
> cat("\n")
> print(.Platform)
> time <-as.POSIXct(c( 126230400, 126252000, 126273600),
> origin="2005-01-01", tz="GMT")
> print(time)
> cat(format(time[1], "%Y %m %d %H %M %S"), "\n")
> cat(format(time[2], "%Y %m %d %H %M %S"), "\n")
> cat(format(time[3], "%Y %m %d %H %M %S"), "\n")
> sink()
> print(paste("Text file in", getwd()))
> 
> and send the resulting txt file to the list (so we can see exactly
> your system config and what not).
> 
> Michael

I appear to have the same or similar problem on Mac OS X 10.6.8
I ran the above script with R --vanilla.
The result is

R version 2.14.1 Patched (2012-01-30 r58238)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] en_GB/en_GB/en_GB/C/en_GB/en_GB

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

$OS.type
[1] "unix"

$file.sep
[1] "/"

$dynlib.ext
[1] ".so"

$GUI
[1] "X11"

$endian
[1] "little"

$pkgType
[1] "mac.binary.leopard"

$path.sep
[1] ":"

$r_arch
[1] "x86_64"

[1] "2009-01-01 00:00:00 GMT" "2009-01-01 06:00:00 GMT"
[3] "2009-01-01 12:00:00 GMT"
2009 01 01 00 00 00 
2009 01 01 06 00 00 
2009 01 01 12 00 00 


Berend