html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1334#issuecomment-289715756,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1334,289715756,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDI4OTcxNTc1Ng==,10050469,2017-03-28T09:33:30Z,2017-03-28T09:33:30Z,MEMBER,"> What I want is to access the array [0,1,2,3....] as integers

``ds['time.hour'].values`` gives you access to the underlying numpy arrays. However, it is needed only in rare case since xarray data structures behave like numpy arrays (one reason why you would want to access the numpy arrays instead of xarrays DataArrays is for performance).

> Perhaps xr is it something more to plot data, and the objects within xr are only capable of manipulation only within a limited framework.

I strongly disagree with that one of course ;-) Let us now if we can do *anything* about the documentation in order to improve it.
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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1334#issuecomment-289708753,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1334,289708753,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDI4OTcwODc1Mw==,10050469,2017-03-28T09:05:21Z,2017-03-28T09:05:21Z,MEMBER,"I don't really understand what you mean. Here is the example from the docs again:

```python
import xarray as xr
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
time = pd.date_range('2000-01-01', freq='H', periods=24)
ds = xr.Dataset({'foo': ('time', np.arange(24)), 'time': time})
ds['time.hour']
```

which prints:

```
<xarray.DataArray 'hour' (time: 24)>
array([ 0,  1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,
       18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23], dtype=int32)
Coordinates:
  * time     (time) datetime64[ns] 2000-01-01 2000-01-01T01:00:00 ...
```

What is it exactly what you are expecting?
","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,217485308
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1334#issuecomment-289704003,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1334,289704003,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDI4OTcwNDAwMw==,10050469,2017-03-28T08:46:14Z,2017-03-28T08:46:14Z,MEMBER,"Yes, many new users of xarray are confused by this one: ``ds['time.hour']`` is probably what you want. It is documented here:

http://xarray.pydata.org/en/latest/time-series.html#datetime-components
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