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

Yet, another method using plyr:

df <- 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")

library(plyr)

# Change date to POSIXct
df$dates <- with(d,as.POSIXct(dates,format="%m/%d/%Y %H:%M"))

# Make new variables, year and month
df <- transform(d,month=as.numeric(format(dates,"%m")),year=as.numeric(format(dates,"%Y")))

## According to year
ddply(df,.(year),summarize,meantemp=mean(temperature),meandepth=mean(depth),meansalinity=mean(salinity))
  year meantemp meandepth meansalinity
1 2012 9.695967 0.3821167       37.647

## According to month
ddply(df,.(month),summarize,meantemp=mean(temperature),meandepth=mean(depth),meansalinity=mean(salinity))
  month meantemp meandepth meansalinity
1    12 9.695967 0.3821167       37.647