Hi,
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Alexander Shenkin <ashen...@ufl.edu> wrote:
>> is.na(strptime("5/2/1992", format="%m/%d/%Y"))
> [1] FALSE
>> is.na(strptime("5/3/1992", format="%m/%d/%Y"))
> [1] TRUE
I can't reproduce your problem on R 2.13.0 on linux:
> strptime("5/2/1992", format="%m/%d/%Y")
[1] "1992-05-02"
> is.na(strptime("5/2/1992", format="%m/%d/%Y"))
[1] FALSE
> strptime("5/3/1992", format="%m/%d/%Y")
[1] "1992-05-03"
> is.na(strptime("5/3/1992", format="%m/%d/%Y"))
[1] FALSE
My suspicion is that you imported the data from a spreadsheet and
there's some formatting glitch that's not showing up. If you type the
string "5/3/1992" into the command by hand, do you still get the same
result?
If so, then we need to know your OS and version of R, at least.
> Any idea what's going on with this? Running strptime against all dates
> from around 1946, only 5/3/1992 was converted as "NA". Even stranger,
> it still seems to have a value associated with it (even though is.na
> thinks it's NA):
>
>> strptime("5/3/1992", format="%m/%d/%Y")
> [1] "1992-05-03"
This makes no sense to me.
Sarah
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