Re: [R] "timeDate" package: Read dates from xls or txt

2014-09-29 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Your questions still don't make sense. Can you use a car to make lunch? You could use it to drive to the store and get ingredients for lunch, but it isn't a very useful question. The timeDate package is a package of useful functions, not a class of data. Re-read my description below, or better

Re: [R] "timeDate" package: Read dates from xls or txt

2014-09-29 Thread jpm miao
Thanks. Could "timeDate" object be transformed to/from "zoo" or "xts"? 2014-09-30 9:01 GMT+08:00 Jeff Newmiller : > If you read the documentation for that package you will find that the > answer is no, for the simple reason that it doesn't do input or output. It > does help you with conversions b

Re: [R] "timeDate" package: Read dates from xls or txt

2014-09-29 Thread Jeff Newmiller
If you read the documentation for that package you will find that the answer is no, for the simple reason that it doesn't do input or output. It does help you with conversions between POSIXt types, and can help figure out which days are holidays or weekends, but you need the date in character fo

[R] "timeDate" package: Read dates from xls or txt

2014-09-29 Thread jpm miao
Hi, timeDate package create a date vector like this: Dates <- c("1989-09-28","2001-01-15","2004-08-30","1990-02-09") I have a date whose size is large. Could this package read the dates from xls or txt files? Could we convert the read vector (e.g., I usually use XLConnect to read xls f