use colClasses to define the columns that you want to read is as date as
'character' to keep the leading zeros.
On 12/28/06, Brian Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the help in addressing my query regarding the formatting of
> dates. All the suggestions were very helpful and I seem to be on track
> with
> solving the problem. Don, you are exactly right in your posting -- that
> is, the issue of the leading zero. And that is where my problem is. When
> I
> read the CSV file into R, the leading zero is dropped. Here is sample
> code
> for reading the file. Can you give me a suggestion on how to keep the
> leading zero? That seems to be my last remaining problem.
>
> DATES <- read.csv("C:/Data/dates.csv", header=TRUE, sep=",", dec=".",
> strip.white=TRUE)
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -Brian
>
>
> "They would have to be character vectors in
> > order to display the leading zero, as in 032398."
> >
> >
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