[R] Converting dates?

[Joerg Maeder]

Hello marcelo

try

plot(strptime(dates,format="%d/%m/%Y"),data)

gruess

joerg


marcelo wrote:
> 
> Dear R-users
> 
> I have some doubts about with converting dates...
> e.g.
> dates         data
> 23/12/1975    0.8678
> 03/01/1976    0.8736
> 28/01/1976    0.765
> 13/03/1976    0,9654
> ...
> I think that converting these dates can easily my plots...
> 
> is there a R function to convert these dates to
> a julian dates and so plot that variables??
> The help files as.POSIXlt, POSIXt and others
> don't aswer my doubts...
> DateTimeClass convert my "dates" to a format POSIX
> and so i can plot??
> Thanks for any help!
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