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Michael On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello again: > > Here is a solution to the dates without leading zeros: > > pou1 <- function(x) { > #Note: x is a data frame > #Assume that Column 1 has the date > #Column 2 has station > #Column 3 has min > #Column 4 has max > library(stringr) > w <- character(length=nrow(x)) > z <- str_split(x[,1],"/") > for(i in 1:nrow(x)) { > u <- str_pad(z[[i]][1:3],width=2,pad="0") > w[i] <- paste(u,sep="",collapse="/") > > } > a <- as.Date(w,"%m/%d/%Y") > > This is not particularly elegant, but it does the trick. > > > Thanks, > Erin > > > -- > Erin Hodgess > Associate Professor > Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences > University of Houston - Downtown > mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.