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Reading and converting time data via read.table

Ek Esawi 
Hi All--



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?



I am grateful for any help and thanks in advance?EKE



Here is an example of my data when read into R via read.table



                AA          Date         Name     T1          T2
N1

1              312171  7/1/1995       OF      13:37      1:43         123

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