[R] R Date Time

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 25/04/2017 5:41 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> On 25 April 2017 at 16:04, Jeff Reichman wrote:
> | R Users
> |
> | Having problems converting the following DTG into an R recognized date/time
> | field
> |
> | 01-01-2016T14:02:23.325
> |
> | Would I separate it into a date field and time filed then put it back
> | together???
>
> The anytime package (on CRAN) does this (and other date or datetime input
> variants) without requiring a format:
>
>   R> library(anytime)
>   R> anytime("01-01-2016T14:02:23.325")
>   [1] "2016-01-01 14:02:23.325 CST"

How does it decide between MDY and DMY orderings in dates?  Doesn't 
matter for this example, but it would for "01-02-2016T14:02:23.325"

Duncan Murdoch