On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 03:22:52PM -0700, John Kane wrote:
> For some reason I thought that I could read some text into dates without a
> separator? Am I wrong?
>
> Examples
>
> Works, it appears
> ccc <- c("2011-04-07", "1989-10-12")
> x <- strptime(ccc, "%Y-%m-%d")
>
> Does not work
> ddd <- c("20110407", "19891012")
> y <- strptime(ccc, "%Y%m%d")
>
> Does this mean I would have to parse the data in ddd and add separators?
> Or am I missing some option in the help on strptime?
> ...
Did you mean
d <- strptime(ddd, "%Y%m%d")
up there? ccc is the form that has the hyphens.
Using ddd works for me:
> format(Sys.time(), "%H:%M:%OS3")
[1] "15:31:10.113"
> ddd <- c("20110407", "19891012")
> strptime(ddd, "%Y%m%d")
[1] "2011-04-07" "1989-10-12"
>
and ?strptime clearly shows an example without separators.
Peace,
david
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