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Handling dates
...nvert to Julian Dates
Description
Given a month, day, and year, returns the number of days since January 1, 1960.
Usage
mdy.date(month, day, year, nineteen = TRUE, fillday = FALSE,
fillmonth = FALSE)
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but
> library(survival)
> mdy.date(12, 1, 1977)
[1] 1Dec77
Similar strange results appear in other date-related functions. I plan to
write functions that converts, eg, "1977-01-31" to the real number 1977.084
and back. What function in R does what 'mdy.date' claims to do?
I'm on
platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch i686
os...