Histogram over times (without dates)
I do analyses of that sort all the time with air quality data where I wish to begin to understand daily behavior -- works well in doing model evaluation as well. I'd say your approach should give you useful information; however, I'd think you'd also be interested in a possible day of week variation.
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Greg Snow wrote:
Have you looked at the "CircStats" and "circular"? They have some plotting functions that may be of help to you. Greg Snow, Ph.D. Statistical Data Center greg.snow at ihc.com (801) 408-8111
"Dubravko Dolic" <Dubravko.Dolic at komdat.com> 03/24/05 09:38AM >>>
Dear Group, Having a character vector like this one: [1] "03:38:55" "07:42:38" "08:04:27" "08:17:13" "08:41:14" "08:46:58" [7] "08:47:11" "08:53:51" "08:57:51" "08:58:56" I try to do a histogram over times of a day. All I want to know, if my solution is proper or if there is another way to go. There is no Information about the day on which this time occurred. it is unimportant as I want to know at what times on a day a costumer buys anything (times are collected from logfiles). The values span 24 hours (e.g. 00:00:00 to 23:59:59) I converted the characters to chron objects (library(chron)) and then to numeric vectors: ordertm.num <- as.numeric(chron(times = ecom$Ordertime)) Then I put the numeric values to hist(), printed the hist without axes=F and constructed my own axis. The result is satisfactory. But as there are so many possibilities with times on R (namely using the POSIX classes) I want to be shure if there is no "standard" approach to handle such time related problems (note that the date is irrelevant to my problem). have a goof Easter holiday All the best Dubravko Dolic Dubravko Dolic <http://www.dolic.de/pagedd.html> -- Statistik -- Tel: +49 (0)89-55 27 44 - 4630 Fax: +49 (0)89-55 27 44 - 2463 Email: dubravko.dolic at komdat.com -------------------------------------------- Komdat GmbH Nymphenburger Stra?e 86 / TH 3 80636 M?nchen -------------------------------------------- Partners for your success www.komdat.com <outbind://96-000000009676DC1A07BA5142BC1A44984B6E7FAC070052D1AC81378E9342947189B04176014700000017F023000052D1AC81378E9342947189B04176014700000017F7DA0000/www.komdat.com> -------------------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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