[R] Reading and converting time data via read.table

[Jim Lemon]

Hi EKE,
Your problem may be that the date strings are being read as a factor.
Try using stringsAsFactors=FALSE when you read the data in. Another
way is to convert your dates to strings when passing to as.Date:

as.Date(as.character(mydf$Date),"%m/%d/%Y")

Jim


On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Ek Esawi <esawiek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All--
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> I am relatively new to R. I am reading a csv file via read.table (MyFile).
> The data types in the file are date, string, integer, and time. I was able
> to read all the data and manipulated correctly except time, e.g., 12:30. I
> used as.Date to convert date and string and integer were easily done. I
> could not figure out how to convert the time data correctly. I tried chron
> but w/o success and I read that POSIXlt and POSIXct work only for date and
> time (e.g. 01/02/1999, 12:30:20). I did not try the lubridate package. Is
> there a way to read time data without date attached to it like mine?
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> I am grateful for any help and thanks in advance—EKE
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> Here is an example of my data when read into R via read.table
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>                 AA          Date         Name     T1          T2
> N1
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> 1              312171  7/1/1995       OF      13:37      1:43         123
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