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Handling midnight timestamps with missing time values in R
If you take a set of POSIXct-format time stamps in R and convert them to text strings (via as.character() ), the midnight time stamps will be shown with just the date and no 00:00 time value. If you subsequently try to convert a vector of text time stamps back to POSIXct, R may decide that…
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Rescuing data off of a broken Onset Tidbit temperature data logger
If you’re like me, you’ve run into this problem at least once in your life (this is for about 8 people in the world total) – you deployed a Tidbit temperature data logger in the field, came back weeks or months later, and the two communications LEDs on the face of the Tidbit have been…
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100 years of sea surface temperature data from Hopkins Marine Station
Caretakers at Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California have been taking the temperature of the surface seawater on the beach every morning at 8:00 AM for over 100 years. In a new open access paper, Larry Breaker and myself run through some methods to fill in the gaps in that data set, look at…