On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Suchandra Thapa wrote:
> Is there any simple way of reading dates from a file? I'm
currently
> reading dates in as characters and then converting them to POSIXlt objects.
> However I would like to know if there is a way of having read.table or scan
> convert a field to a date-time class.
scan, no.
read.table, in principle in >=1.4.0, see the colClasses argument.
There are so many possible formats of dates that any attempt to automate
this is bound to lead to problems.
`In principle' because you need to set up as() to do the conversion (and
that is part of the methods package and not set up out-of-the-box).
What's the problem with what you are doing now?
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