[R] data in form of a date

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Thu Nov 23 01:16:31 CET 2006


Read the help desk article in R News 4/1.

On 11/22/06, James J. Roper <jjroper at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I often use dates and times in analyses.  I just can't figure out how to
> format my date or time column in R.  So, apparently R sees the date as
> something other than date (character).  Let's say I am opening a CSV
> file, one of the columns of which is a date or time.  How do I specify
> that when opening the file?
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> Jim
>
> --
> -------------------------------------
> James J. Roper, Ph.D.
> Universidade Federal do Paraná
> Depto. de Zoologia
> Caixa Postal 19020
> 81531-990 Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil
> =====================================
> E-mail:             jjroper at gmail.com
> Phone/Fone/Teléfono:   55 41 33611764
> celular:               55 41 99870543
> =====================================
> Zoologia na UFPR
> http://zoo.bio.ufpr.br/zoologia/
> Ecologia e Conservação na UFPR
> http://www.bio.ufpr.br/ecologia/
> -------------------------------------
> http://jjroper.sites.uol.com.br
> Currículo Lattes
> http://lattes.cnpq.br/2553295738925812
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>



More information about the R-help mailing list