R help - Jan 2010 - "%d/%m/%Y" can not be displayed in a .rd file

Hi all,
  I found the date format (e.g."%d/%m/%Y") in the .rd file cannot be
displayed after building the package. See below,
###.rd file####
\examples{
a<-"10/20/1999"
DateConversion(a,DateIn="%m/%d/%Y",DateOut="%d/%m/%Y")
}
####The result is ####
Examples:
     a<-"10-20-1999"
     DateConversion(a,DateIn="

  ??"%m/%d/%Y" seems cannot be recognized.
    Is there some method to solve this and make it visible?
  Thanks a lot.
-- 
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Jane Chang
Queen's

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Try "\%d/\%m/\%Y"

Escaping the % should do the trick.  If I remember correctly, Latex uses
the % as the comment delimiter.  I don't know if that's the cause of the
error, but escaping it has always solve the problem for me. 

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Subject: [R] "%d/%m/%Y" can not be displayed in a .rd file

Hi all,
  I found the date format (e.g."%d/%m/%Y") in the .rd file cannot be
displayed after building the package. See below, ###.rd file####
\examples{ a<-"10/20/1999"
DateConversion(a,DateIn="%m/%d/%Y",DateOut="%d/%m/%Y")
}
####The result is ####
Examples:
     a<-"10-20-1999"
     DateConversion(a,DateIn="

  ??"%m/%d/%Y" seems cannot be recognized.
    Is there some method to solve this and make it visible?
  Thanks a lot.
--
-----------------
Jane Chang
Queen's

	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]

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On 07/01/2010 2:09 PM, rusers.sh wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I found the date format (e.g."%d/%m/%Y") in the .rd file cannot
be
> displayed after building the package. See below,
> ###.rd file####
> \examples{
> a<-"10/20/1999"
> DateConversion(a,DateIn="%m/%d/%Y",DateOut="%d/%m/%Y")
> }
> ####The result is ####
> Examples:
>      a<-"10-20-1999"
>      DateConversion(a,DateIn="
>
>   ??"%m/%d/%Y" seems cannot be recognized.
>     Is there some method to solve this and make it visible?
>   Thanks a lot.

The % character is a comment character in Rd files.  You need to escape it:

DateConversion(a,DateIn="\%m/\%d/\%Y",DateOut="\%d/\%m/\%Y")



Duncan Murdoch