Thanks! On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 00:34:11 -0500 (EST) > From: Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [R] strptime Usage > > > > strptime takes a character input and produces a POSIXlt output so > the format you specify to strptime is the format of the input, > not the output: > > format( strptime("10/22/1986", "%m/%d/%Y"), "%Y-%m" ) It worked perfect. Just out of interest, if I want to convert (either from the original form, i.e. mm/dd/yyyy, or the yyyy-mm form, to quarterly format, e.g.: 1999-1 1999-2 1999-3 1999-4 is it possible to do with strptime? Or do I have to do something creative? ;-D -- Cheers, Kevin --------------------------------------------------------------- "Try not. Do, do! Or do not. There is no try" Jedi Master Yoda ---- Ko-Kang Kevin Wang Master of Science (MSc) Student SLC Tutor and Lab Demonstrator Department of Statistics University of Auckland New Zealand Homepage: http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kwan022 Ph: 373-7599 x88475 (City) x88480 (Tamaki) ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help