Re: [R] dates in French format

2008-01-31 Thread Denis Chabot
(I've put the R Mac list in cc because of the crashes I have experienced trying some of the suggestions below) Hi Gabor and Prof Ripley, Le 31 janv. 08 à 02:11, Prof Brian Ripley a écrit : The output from sessionInfo() the posting guide asked for would have been very helpful here. You

Re: [R] dates in French format

2008-01-31 Thread Denis Chabot
Hi all, The crashes I reported earlier were cause by R 2.6.1 for Mac not liking the OS date setting french canada, an issue that has been solved (by Simon Urbanek). The crashes did not occur when the OS was set to use normal french formats for dates. With that setting, the suggestions by

Re: [R] dates in French format

2008-01-31 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Jan 31, 2008 4:25 PM, Denis Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, The crashes I reported earlier were cause by R 2.6.1 for Mac not liking the OS date setting french canada, an issue that has been solved (by Simon Urbanek). The crashes did not occur when the OS was set to use normal

[R] dates in French format

2008-01-30 Thread Denis Chabot
Hello R users, I have to import a file with one column containing dates written in French short format, such as: 7-déc-07 11-déc-07 14-déc-07 18-déc-07 21-déc-07 24-déc-07 26-déc-07 28-déc-07 31-déc-07 2-janv-08 4-janv-08 7-janv-08 9-janv-08 11-janv-08

Re: [R] dates in French format

2008-01-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
The output from sessionInfo() the posting guide asked for would have been very helpful here. I think the problem is likely to be that these are not standard French abbreviations according to my systems. On Linux I get format(Sys.Date(), %d-%b-%y) [1] 31-jan-08 format(Sys.Date()-50,