R-bugs is for bugs, and one bug per report. That means it cannot cope with three-part reports, two parts of which seem to be questions/wishes.
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Giles L Crane > Version: 1.9.0 > OS: Windows 98 > Submission from: (NULL) (199.20.71.17) > > > In package foreign, the read.epiinfo() does not > read dates properly. > (1) In reading a dataset, > read.epiinfo made many dates NA. Can you give a reproducible example, please. Please start a new topic with a comprehensive subject line, as this one has been closed. > (2) Instead of reading dates to a POSIXct format, > why not read to a mm/dd/yyyy format such as > "06/22/2004"? > As you may know, EPI6 calculates and displays > dates quite directly. R does not use that date format (which is not an international standard). Indeed, how does anyone know that is a date (and if "01/01/1989", that it is in the illogical mm/dd/yyyy format only used in a few countries). > (3) The package date does not seem to have > a convenient way of extracting dates > from POSIXct format. Well, the date package was written about a decade before POSIXct. Why would anyone still be using it for new data? (Such a person could easily write one for his/her own use.) > Appreciate any comments, -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
