How do I match data frames by time intervals?
This is a problem that comes up often when I am importing raw data from data loggers. A temperature logger is set to record temperature every ten minutes, and a separate gas logger is set to record gas used in the last ten minute interval. I want to combine the data from these two loggers into a single data frame for plotting and analysis, but the times are not exactly aligned. I want to have one row in the data frame for each ten minute period, with the datetime showing the beginning of the time period. The temperature logger data looks like: datetime temperature 2010-09-30 06:58:53 78.996