Re: [R] Converting date format

2010-03-24 Thread Muhammad Rahiz
The following functions may help; strptime() ISOdate() Muhammad Hosack, Michael wrote: R community: Hello, I would to like to convert a character date variable from %m/%d/%Y to %m/%d/%y. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have tried functions for changing the formatting and

[R] Converting date format

2010-03-23 Thread Hosack, Michael
R community: Hello, I would to like to convert a character date variable from %m/%d/%Y to %m/%d/%y. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have tried functions for changing the formatting and removing the unnecessary digits without success. Mike

Re: [R] Converting date format

2010-03-23 Thread Nutter, Benjamin
:11 AM To: R-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Converting date format R community: Hello, I would to like to convert a character date variable from %m/%d/%Y to %m/%d/%y. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have tried functions for changing the formatting and removing the unnecessary digits

Re: [R] Converting date format

2010-03-23 Thread jim holtman
try this: x - c('1/1/1970','12/13/2010', '2/3/2001') gsub((\\d+/\\d+/)\\d\\d(\\d\\d file://d+///d+/)//d//d(//d//d), \\1\\2file://0.0.0.1//2, x) [1] 1/1/70 12/13/10 2/3/01 On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Hosack, Michael mhos...@state.pa.uswrote: R community: Hello, I would to like to