I put a list of date/time classes and pointers to documents describing them on the R-wiki at http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=guides:times-dates
The various reasons one might use each of them are described in the documents. (If anyone feels like adding summaries to the "tips" section on the Wiki, please go ahead!) -- Tony Plate Petr Pikal wrote: > Hi > > On 27 Mar 2007 at 9:09, Charles Dupont wrote: > > Date sent: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:09:27 -0500 > From: Charles Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: Vanderbilt University; Department of Biostatistics > To: [email protected] > Subject: [R] Prefered date and date/time classes > Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> What are the preferred date, and data/time classes for R? > > It is probably a personal choice. You can use POSIX, chron or other > options. They are nicely described in RNEWS 4-1 in section Help Desk. > > Regards > Petr > > >> Thanks >> >> Charles Dupont >> >> >> -- >> Charles Dupont Computer System Analyst School of Medicine >> Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [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 and provide commented, >> minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > 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 > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ [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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
