[R] strptime

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Eric Elguero wrote:

> Hi,
>
> what's wrong with that?

User error.  Look up all the terms beginning with % -- the third one (%:) 
is not described in the help file.

>
>> strptime("06:00:00 03.01.2008",format="%H:%M%:%S %d.%m.%Y",tz="GMT")
> [1] NA
>
> the command seems to comply with the rules in the help file but returns NA
> (R 2.6.1 Windows XT)
>
> Eric Elguero
>
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