howdy R friends, Can anyone help me with converting a ''unix'' date (seconds since 1970) into something readable? There doesn''t seem to be anything in the ''date'' package and the prospect of calculating this myself doesn''t excite me. thanks, John Strumila -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Dear John,
If you are using Unix look at man date or, preferably, info date (which is
more comprehensive, and has examples). I think you may be able to do your
conversion using the tools they have available, though I couldn''t see
how
immediately. If you aren''t using Unix, you should be :-). Or give me an
example of what you want converted, and I will try and get it to work.
Personally, I enjoy fiddling around with Unix, but each to his own
perversion...
Faheem.
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Strumila, John wrote:
> howdy R friends,
>
> Can anyone help me with converting a ''unix'' date (seconds
since 1970) into
> something readable?
>
> There doesn''t seem to be anything in the ''date''
package and the prospect of
> calculating this myself doesn''t excite me.
>
> thanks,
> John Strumila
>
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On Mon, 22 May 2000, Strumila, John wrote:> howdy R friends, > > Can anyone help me with converting a ''unix'' date (seconds since 1970) into > something readable? > > There doesn''t seem to be anything in the ''date'' package and the prospect of > calculating this myself doesn''t excite me.Well, if you take a date and divide by 60*60*24 you have days since the zero date. You can then add this to the zero date. date<-mdy.date(1,1,1970)+unixdate/(60*60*24) -thomas Thomas Lumley Assistant Professor, Biostatistics University of Washington, Seattle -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Hi R users! Is there any library for reading database file (dbf), or are there now people working around with that? Danar. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Tue, 23 May 2000 dandon at capa.stat.umu.se wrote:> > Hi R users! > Is there any library for reading database file (dbf), or are there now > people working around with that?Directly reading of *.dbf is not available (at my knowledge). You can read your data into a database like Postgres, MySQL or mSQL and then use the database packages RmSQL (CRAN) or RS_DBI (omegahat.org, I think) for reading your data into the R paradise :-) Torsten> > Danar. > > > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- > r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html > Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" > (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ >-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Hello All, I use dbf2txt (a perl script written by Gilbert Ramirez at University of Texas) to convert dbase files to text files. It also will produce the necessary program (for another statistical package produced by a company in North Carolina) to read the text file if you give it the -s option. Might be a good place to start, at least to see how the dbase file is constructed. Jonathan Jonathan Yuen, Professor in Plant Pathology phone: 46 18 672369 Dept. of Ecology and Crop Production Sciences fax: 46 18 672890 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences http://www.tvs.slu.se Box 7043 email replies to S 750 07 Uppsala, SWEDEN Jonathan.Yuen at evp.slu.se -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>>>>> "d" == dandon <dandon at capa.stat.umu.se> writes:d> Hi R users! Is there any library for reading database file d> (dbf), or are there now people working around with that? Debian has a number of conversion utilites, dbfto(NAME_AN_OPENSOURCE_SQL_DB), as well as general tools for extracting information into tab/csv formats. You might look there and backtrace to find the actual source. -- A.J. Rossini Research Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Biostatistics/Univ. of Washington (Th) Box 357232 206-543-1044 (3286=fax) Center for AIDS Research/HMC/UW (M/F) Box 359931 206-731-3647 (3693=fax) VTN/SCHARP/FHCRC (Tu/W) Box 358080 206-667-7025 (4812=fax) rossini@(biostat.washington.edu|u.washington.edu|hivnet.fhcrc.org) http://www.biostat.washington.edu/~rossini -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._