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...lculate a variable named F.length, which is today's date minus the values contained in the variable: April$Order.Made.Date) I tried altering the date format but continued to receive the same error. > F.length <- difftime ("11/04/2008", April$Order.Made.Date) > Error in fromchar(as.character(x)) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format > Order.date <- as.Date (April$Order.Made.Date) > Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format > Order.date <- 'as.POSIXlt' (April$Order.Made.Date) Error...

...000 SP2 Submission from: (NULL) (195.27.237.226) Hi, there seems to be a bug in julian(): > Sys.getlocale() [1] "LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252" > julian(Sys.time()) Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format > julian function (x, ...) UseMethod("julian") > julian.POSIXt function (x, origin = as.POSIXct("1970-01-01", tz = "GMT"), ...) { if (length(origin) != 1) stop("`origin' must be...

...;- "2009-01-21" The script later parses the input via the as.Date function: > as.Date(date1) However, as.Date encounters an error when the string does not represent an actual date. eg: > date1 <- "2009-02-29" # Note: 2009 not a leap year > as.Date(date1) Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format As I have many instances of date entries like this, date1, date2, date3, etc. , I'd like the script to error out gracefully and to be able to point the user to which date they need to correct, rather than "Error in fromchar(x...

...ery simple, but after checking the documentation and the list I still don't have something that works. 1. as.Date returns the error below. What am I doing wrong? As far as I can see the character strings are in standard format. d$Date <- as.Date(d$Date, format="%d-%b-%y") Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format 2. as.date {Survival} produces this error, d$Date <- as.date(d$Date, order = "dmy") Error in as.date(d$Date, order = "dmy") : Cannot coerce to date format 3. Assuming all else fails, is there a text function simi...

Dear All, I installed R 2.7.0 and tried to call a dataset i had ealier own called on R2.6.2 but i keep on getting an error: use("maltreat.dta") Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format Tried doing the same with R2.7.1 but i get the same error. However if i call the same on R 2.6.2, there is no error: use("maltreat.dta") > des() No. of observations = 670 Variable Class Descr...

Hi, how it's possible to extract the year and the number of days from Julian date. i'm little confused about the last two functions and ?years . EDATE comes from sqlQuery with as.is=T EDATE <- as.POSIXlt(datvears$ENROLLDAY) Many thanks, Christian > EDATE[1:5] [1] "2000-06-30 11:25:01" "2000-06-30 11:39:55" "2000-06-30 12:11:11" [4]

...ote does not work yet, since the function julian does not work. Is this problem only in my computer? The previous version of get.hist.quote (tseries 0.7-0) did work. Sys.time and julian produce > Sys.time() [1] "2001-10-04 15:33:14 GTB Daylight Time" > julian(Sys.time()) Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format > get.hist.quote produces x <- get.hist.quote(instrument = "^spc", start = "1998-01-01", + quote = "Close") trying URL `http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=^spc&a=01&b=0...

...nable Gabor to create methods for his 'zoo' series, and let me create methods for my 'tis' (Time Indexed Series). But these are not as urgent as cleaning up as.POSIXlt(). Jeff Hallman The current as.POSIXlt() implementation: as.POSIXlt <- function(x, tz = ""){ fromchar <- function(x) { xx <- x[1] if(is.na(xx)) { j <- 1 while(is.na(xx) && (j <- j+1) <= length(x)) xx <- x[j] if(is.na(xx)) f <- "%Y-%m-%d" # all NAs } if(is.na(xx) || !is.na(strptime...

Dear all, I import my data from a csv-file containing one row with date-entries. How can I tell R to treat this data as dates? I've tried to bring it in character-format (as.charachter()) followed by as.POSIXlt() but I get an error message, that the character string is not in a standard unambiguous format, although the date is of format yyyy-mm-dd (what is standard format according to R

Hello all, I recently moved from the US to Africa & on changing my time zone in the OSX system preferences from EST to GMT+3 ( East Africa) on attempting to use read.dta using the foreign package began getting an error of: "Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format" This error goes away & the data is correctly read in when I revert to the EST time zone. I installed & am currently using R Version 1.19-pre (devel, r4291) (4291) while I was still in the US. I am running OS X 1...

Dear all, I successfully set up a local MySQL-database. Connecting via RODBC is not problem, the same in fetching 3 of 4 tables. But trying to connect to table 4 fails. > author<-sqlFetch(test,"author") Error in fromchar(unclass(x)) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format In principle I understand that error message, but I don't know any solution. Thanks for any help, Bernd > version _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386...

...ted to a data frame which I thought is fine. Now I want to convert it to zoo so I did x <- zoo(my.df) which works just fine. But the Date column has been turned into a factor. Is there a way to make it into a Date. I've tried, x$Date <- as.Date(x$Date) but R complains that Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format Thanks in advance. Horace W. Tso ______________________________________________ R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/pos...

...In one (x) the date format is Y/m/d and the other (y) is d/m/y. I used read.zoo on both and they read into R with no problem. Then I use: weekdays(as.Date(x$DATE)) and get what I expect - all the days of the week in my data set. When I use: weekdays(as.Date(y$Date)) I get: Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format I've tried to set the format= in read.zoo to format="%d/%m/%Y" but this doesn't seem to solve the problem. What's going on here? (I'm new to these dates functions, so please be patient - I'll get th...

...t;,"%Y%m%d") Time difference of NA secs > strptime("20040602","%Y%m%d")-strptime("19700102","%Y%m%d") Time difference of 12569.96 days I get as well the bug reported in 1332: > as.POSIXct("1970-01-01", tz = "GMT") Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format Regarding hint on msvcrt.dll in Windows-FAQ on R: The downloaded archive contains: msvcrt.dll 4.20.0.6164 msvcrt20.dll 2.11.0.0 msvcrt40.dll 4.10.0.5349 My Windows 2000 System has the following versions in ...\system32: msvcrt.dll 6.1....

...;use" found in package epicalc on R2.7.1 and R2.7.0 but dont get the error when i run it on R 2.6.2 What is likely to be the problem? library(epicalc) Loading required package: foreign Loading required package: survival Loading required package: splines use("malvac.dta") Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format use("maltreat.dta") Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format I have attached the datasets (Stata datasets) herein. Kind regards, Lazarus Mramba Junior Statistician P.O Box 986...

...//chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=ibm&a=01&b=01&c=1998&d=10&e=28&f=2001&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=ibm&x=. csv' Content type `application/octet-stream' length unknown opened URL downloaded 45Kb time series starts 1998-01-02 time series ends 2001-10-26 Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format > Can anyone help? (I use R 1.3.1 with Windows 2000.) Thanks, ANDREW Andrew Criswell, Ph.D. Graduate School, Bangkok University -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing...

...rch x86 os Win32 system x86, Win32 status major 1 minor 2.3 year 2001 month 04 day 26 language R > as.POSIXct( "1970/01/01" ) Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format Apparently the error comes out of as.POSIXlt which is called by as.POSIXct, and it looks as if the behaviour of strptime has changed. But I cannot find any differences in the code. Any clues?? ---------------------- Bendix Carstensen...

...-01") trying URL ` http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=ibm&a=01&b=01&c=1998&d=07&e=17&f=2002&g=d&q=q&y=0&z=ibm&x=.csv ' Content type `application/octet-stream' length unknown opened URL downloaded 48Kb time series starts 1998-01-02 Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the...

...t; longer match. > > Probably both should use the double ellipses, but "..." will be empty > on automatic printing, so that's not it. > > The issue is an infinite recursion inside as.POSIXlt(). Specifically, > strptime() internally calls as.character(x) inside the fromchar() > function in as.POSIXlt(), and as.character.POSIXt() invokes format() > which calls as.POSIXlt() again. > > I think the fix is to unclass(x) inside fromchar(), but perhaps others > know better? > > > -- > O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 >...

...care missing the exact birthday by a day or so.)" As I said, division is a hard case with no clear answer. The creation of other unit schemes is silly --- why in the world would I voluntarily put on a straightjacket? d. >> as.Date('09Sep2007') >> > Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format My off-the-cuff suggestion is to make the message honest Error in fromchar(x): program is not able to divine the correct format The problem is not that the format is necessarily wrong or ambiguous, but that the program can't gu...