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On 6/23/06, Kerpel, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks! > > > > I'm struggling with dates - but enough about my personal life..... > > > > I have two daily time series files. In one (x) the date format is Y/m/d > and the other (y) is d/m/y. I used read.zoo on both and they read into > R with no problem. > > > > Then I use: weekdays(as.Date(x$DATE)) and get what I expect - all the > days of the week in my data set. > > > > When I use: weekdays(as.Date(y$Date)) I get: > > > > Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous > format > > > > I've tried to set the format= in read.zoo to format="%d/%m/%Y" but this > doesn't seem to solve the problem. > > > > What's going on here? (I'm new to these dates functions, so please be > patient - I'll get the hang out of soon!) > > > > Best, > > > > John > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > [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 > ______________________________________________ [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
