On Mar 10, 2010, at 3:29 PM, GULATI, BRIJESH (Global Markets FF&O NY) wrote:
> Is there easy way to convert numeric to date?
>
> For example:
>
> If I have,
>
> a = as.Date("2010-03-04")
>
> And, if run
>
>> as.numeric(a)
> [1] 14672
>
> Is there any function that I can use to convert 14672 back to the date.
>
> Thx in advance,
> Brijesh
> as.Date(14672, origin = "1970-01-01")
[1] "2010-03-04"
Of course, you would have to know that R stores dates internally as the number
of days since 1970-01-01, which is curiously not defined in the help page for
?as.Date, but is on ?Date, which is in the See Also of the former.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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