sirme...@gmail.com [sirme...@gmail.com] wrote:
Hi list, I am having trouble getting R to read and display dates correctly. My dates are in the form of day (no space) month (no space) year, for example: 250706 and sometimes 50906. Any guidance would be appreciated...Thanks. (1) This question has nothing to do with Mac computers. It should have been sent to r-help. (2) The problem seems to me to be the inconsistency in the number of digits representing "day", To remedy this, paste on a zero and then remove redundant zeroes: foo <- function(x) { x <- paste(0,x,sep="") x <- substr(x,nchar(x)-5,nchar(x)) strptime(x,format="%d%m%y") } x <- c(250706,50906) foo(x) [1] "2006-07-25" "2006-09-05" HTH. cheers, Rolf Turner _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac