Dear all, please, is there any possibility how to extract a date from data which are like this:
.... "Date: Sat, 21 Feb 04 10:25:43 GMT" "Date: 13 Feb 2004 13:54:22 -0600" "Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 17:00:48 +0000" "Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:22:27 -0400" "Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:53:56 -0500" "Date: 20 Feb 2004 02:18:58 -0600" "Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 16:01:19 +0800" .... I used strptime(paste(substr(x,12,13), substr(x,15,17), substr(x,19,22), sep="-"), format="%d-%b-%Y") which suits to lines 3:5 and 7 (such are the most common in my dataset) but obviously does not work with other lines. If there is no stightforward solution I can live with what I use now but some automagical function like give.me.date.from.my.string.regardles.of.formating(x) would be great. Thank you. Petr Pikal [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
