On Oct 23, 2010, at 2:09 PM, Turner Rolf wrote:
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"
All true. I have had to do steps equivalent to this, but learned from
my experience. I now use colClasses to import dates as "character"
rather than numeric.
--
David.
HTH.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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