R help - Nov 2009 - re placing the dates format in R for exporting the data set...

hi everyone, i am having difficulties with replacing the dates format in R
for exporting the data set...

eg: the code that i used was 
toms_dat<- replace(toms_dat, toms_dat ==2009-08-06, 2)
toms_dat<- replace(toms_dat, toms_dat ==2009-08-04, 1)

but when i export the data as into txt file or excel file the dates come up
with very large numbers .....:drunk:

please help me ...=)
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moreover, how come when I export a dataframe out from R say, it become a
excel file.  The first column includes the inex number eg: 1,2,3 ......n
instead of including the values that the first column should be have ....

anyone know how to solve this problem ?


ychu066 wrote:
> 
> hi everyone, i am having difficulties with replacing the dates format in R
> for exporting the data set...
> 
> eg: the code that i used was 
> toms_dat<- replace(toms_dat, toms_dat ==2009-08-06, 2)
> toms_dat<- replace(toms_dat, toms_dat ==2009-08-04, 1)
> 
> but when i export the data as into txt file or excel file the dates come
> up with very large numbers .....:drunk:
> 
> please help me ...=)
> 
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Moreover,  I want to rename the column name V1,V2,V3,V4.....V146.  how do i
write the code in R ???

thanks everyone that look at the thread/



ychu066 wrote:
> 
> hi everyone, i am having difficulties with replacing the dates format in R
> for exporting the data set...
> 
> eg: the code that i used was 
> toms_dat<- replace(toms_dat, toms_dat ==2009-08-06, 2)
> toms_dat<- replace(toms_dat, toms_dat ==2009-08-04, 1)
> 
> but when i export the data as into txt file or excel file the dates come
> up with very large numbers .....:drunk:
> 
> please help me ...=)
> 
http://old.nabble.com/file/p26400792/what.csv what.csv 
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First of all '2009-08-06' is 1995; this is probably not what you were
expecting.  What do you what your expression to do?  Is 'toms_dat' a
dataframe?  if so, your expression 'toms_dat ==2009-08-06' seem
strange.  So tell us what you want to do, not how you want to do it.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:54 PM, ychu066 <ychu066 at aucklanduni.ac.nz>
wrote:
>
> hi everyone, i am having difficulties with replacing the dates format in R
> for exporting the data set...
>
> eg: the code that i used was
> toms_dat<- replace(toms_dat, toms_dat ==2009-08-06, 2)
> toms_dat<- replace(toms_dat, toms_dat ==2009-08-04, 1)
>
> but when i export the data as into txt file or excel file the dates come up
> with very large numbers .....:drunk:
>
> please help me ...=)
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