Specificare le date

Come hai visto nel video, R non sa che qualcosa è una data finché non glielo dici. Se hai una stringa di caratteri che rappresenta una data nello standard ISO 8601, puoi trasformarla in un Date usando la funzione as.Date(). Passa semplicemente la stringa (o un vettore di stringhe) come primo argomento.

In questo esercizio convertirai una rappresentazione testuale di una data in un oggetto Date.

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Abbiamo salvato la stringa "2013-04-03" in una variabile chiamata x.

Usa str() per esaminare la struttura di x e confermare che è solo una stringa di caratteri.
Converte x in una data usando as.Date().
Usa str() per esaminare la struttura di x_date e confermare che è un Date.
Ora usa as.Date() per memorizzare la data April 10, 2014.

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# The date R 3.0.0 was released
x <- "2013-04-03"

# Examine structure of x
str(___)

# Use as.Date() to interpret x as a date
x_date <- ___

# Examine structure of x_date
str(___)

# Store April 10 2014 as a Date
april_10_2014 <- ___

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R doesn't know something is a date or time unless you tell it. In this chapter you'll learn about some of the ways R stores dates and times by exploring how often R versions are released, and how quickly people download them. You'll also get a sneak peek at what you'll learn in the following chapters.

Exercise 1: Introduzione alle date Exercise 2: Riconoscere le date ISO 8601 Exercise 3: Specificare le date

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Exercise 4: Importazione automatica Exercise 5: Perché usare le date?Exercise 6: Creare grafici Exercise 7: Operatori aritmetici e logici Exercise 8: E per gli orari?Exercise 9: Importare datetime in R Exercise 10: Anche i datetime si comportano bene Exercise 11: Perché lubridate?

Dates and times come in a huge assortment of formats, so your first hurdle is often to parse the format you have into an R datetime. This chapter teaches you to import dates and times with the lubridate package. You'll also learn how to extract parts of a datetime. You'll practice by exploring the weather in R's birthplace, Auckland NZ.

Exercise 1: Parsing dates with lubridate Exercise 2: Selecting the right parsing function Exercise 3: Specifying an order with `parse_date_time()`Exercise 4: Weather in Auckland Exercise 5: Import daily weather data Exercise 6: Import hourly weather data Exercise 7: Extracting parts of a datetime Exercise 8: What can you extract?Exercise 9: Adding useful labels Exercise 10: Extracting for plotting Exercise 11: Extracting for filtering and summarizing Exercise 12: Rounding datetimes Exercise 13: Practice rounding Exercise 14: Rounding with the weather data

Getting datetimes into R is just the first step. Now that you know how to parse datetimes, you need to learn how to do calculations with them. In this chapter, you'll learn the different ways of representing spans of time with lubridate and how to leverage them to do arithmetic on datetimes. By the end of the chapter, you'll have calculated how long it's been since the first man stepped on the moon, generated sequences of dates to help schedule reminders, calculated when an eclipse occurs, and explored the reigns of monarch's of England (and which ones might have seen Halley's comet!).

Exercise 1: Taking differences of datetimes Exercise 2: How long has it been?Exercise 3: How many seconds are in a day?Exercise 4: Time spans.Exercise 5: Adding or subtracting a time span to a datetime Exercise 6: Duration or Period?Exercise 7: Arithmetic with timespans Exercise 8: Generating sequences of datetimes Exercise 9: The tricky thing about months Exercise 10: Intervals Exercise 11: Examining intervals. Reigns of kings and queens Exercise 12: Comparing intervals and datetimes Exercise 13: Converting to durations and periods

You now know most of what you need to tackle data that includes dates and times, but there are a few other problems you might encounter in practice. In this final chapter you'll learn a little more about these problems by returning to some of the earlier data examples and learning how to handle time zones, deal with times when you don't care about dates, parse dates quickly, and output dates and times.

Exercise 1: Time zones Exercise 2: Setting the timezone Exercise 3: Viewing in a timezone Exercise 4: Timezones in the weather data Exercise 5: Times without dates Exercise 6: More on importing and exporting datetimes Exercise 7: Fast parsing with fasttime Exercise 8: Fast parsing with lubridate::fast_strptime Exercise 9: Outputting pretty dates and times Exercise 10: Wrap-up