Annual, monthly or daily mean for irregular time series

Question

I am a new user of \"R\", and I couldn\'t find a good solution to solve it. I got a timeseries in the following format:

>dates  temperature depth   salini         


        

Answer 1

Convert your data to an xts object, then use apply.daily et al to calculate whatever values you want.

library(xts)
d <- structure(list(dates = c("12/03/2012 11:26", "12/03/2012 11:56", 
"12/03/2012 12:26"), temperature = c(9.7533, 9.6673, 9.6673), 
    depth = c(0.48073, 0.33281, 0.33281), salinity = c(37.607, 
    37.662, 37.672)), .Names = c("dates", "temperature", "depth", 
"salinity"), row.names = c(NA, -3L), class = "data.frame")
x <- xts(d[,-1], as.POSIXct(d[,1], format="%m/%d/%Y %H:%M"))
apply.daily(x, colMeans)
#                     temperature     depth salinity
# 2012-12-03 12:26:00    9.695967 0.3821167   37.647