How to create a time series by 30 minute intervals

Problem

We want to create a time series by 30 minute intervals.

Example

[1] "2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC"
[2] "2017-01-01 00:30:00 UTC"
[3] "2017-01-01 01:00:00 UTC"
[4] "2017-01-01 01:30:00 UTC"
[5] "2017-01-01 02:00:00 UTC"
[6] "2017-01-01 02:30:00 UTC"

Solution

We use the function seq and specify minutes in the by argument, and pass the time zone "UTC". Type ?seq.POSIXt for more details about the by argument specified as a character string:

A character string, containing one of "sec", "min", "hour", "day", "DSTday", "week", "month", "quarter" or "year". This can optionally be preceded by a (positive or negative) integer and a space, or followed by "s".

seq(as.POSIXct("2017-01-01", tz = "UTC"),
    as.POSIXct("2017-01-02", tz = "UTC"),
    by = "30 min")

References

• stackoverflow