In order to do any conversion, you have to know the format of the data that is being input. So which is it: does 52 represent the day of the year, or the week of the year? Does make a big difference, but until you know what "1952-52" means, it is hard to specify which way you should do the conversion.
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:12 AM, arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi Jim, > > I tried, > > dat2<-as.Date(dat1,format="%Y-%V") >> dat2 > [1] "1951-07-02" "1952-07-02" > > But, if the format is for YYYY-wk or YYYY-yy, then, not sure how this will > help. > > A.K. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> > To: Karan Anand <anand.kara...@gmail.com> > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Sent: Monday, July 2, 2012 9:04 AM > Subject: Re: [R] enquiry > > try this: > >> as.Date('1951-52', format = "%Y-%j") > [1] "1951-02-21" >> > > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Karan Anand <anand.kara...@gmail.com> wrote: >> hi, >> i am new to using r .so if you can pls tell me how to read "1951-52" >> ,"1952-52" date format in r >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Data Munger Guru > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? > Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. ______________________________________________ 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.