[R] Date format

Jeff Newmiller
Sun, 10 May 2020 03:03:33 -0000

... but str says it is character. This must be 4.0...

On May 9, 2020 7:17:16 PM PDT, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>$date is a factor, which is coded as numeric values internally, which
>as.date sees as numeric, and therefore:
>"as.Date will accept numeric data (the number of days since an epoch),
>but only if origin is supplied." (from ?as.Date)
>
>You need to supply a format argument to as.Date to get it to handle
>the factor properly; e.g.
>"%d.%m.%Y"  should work. See ?strptime for formatting details.
>
>Bert Gunter
>
>"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
>and sticking things into it."
>-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
>
>On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 5:31 PM Medic <mailiPadpost at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>> I took a SAMPLE CODE (for Connected scatterplot) from the R gallery
>> and applied to MY DATA, but got:
>> "Error in as.Date.numeric(mydata$date) : 'origin' must be
supplied".
>> P.S. I can not understand ?as.Date()
>>
>> SAMPLE CODE
>> library(ggplot2)
>> library(dplyr)
>> library(hrbrthemes)
>> data <-
>read.table("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/holtzy/data_to_viz/master/Example_dataset/3_TwoNumOrdered.csv",
>> header=T)
>>
>> str(data)
>> 'data.frame': 1822 obs. of  2 variables:
>>  $ date : chr  "2013-04-28" "2013-04-29"
"2013-04-30" "2013-05-01"
>...
>>  $ value: num  136 147 147 140 126 ...
>>
>> data$date <- as.Date(data$date)
>>
>> # Plot
>> data %>%
>>   tail(10) %>%
>>   ggplot( aes(x=date, y=value)) +
>>     geom_line( color="grey") +
>>     geom_point(shape=21, color="black",
fill="#69b3a2", size=6) +
>>     theme_ipsum() +
>>     ggtitle("Evolution of bitcoin price")
>>
>>
>> MY DATA
>> mydata <- read.table("E:/mydata.csv", header=TRUE,
sep=";", dec=",")
>>
>> str(mydata)
>> 'data.frame': 7 obs. of  2 variables:
>>  $ date : chr  "01.01.2000" "02.01.2000"
"03.01.2000" "04.01.2000"
>...
>>  $ value: int  11 12 13 14 15 16 17
>>
>> mydata$date <- as.Date(mydata$date)
>> Error in as.Date.numeric(mydata$date) : 'origin' must be
supplied
>>
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