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2009 Jul 11
2
Date conversions
...ometimes I get NAs. That I don't understand.
Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong here? As I say, I think I'd
like to convert 01/03/2004 into 1040103 as this numeric format seems
very good for doing comparisons.
The code:
MyDate1 = read.csv("C:\\Date1.txt",header=TRUE)
MyDate2 = read.csv("C:\\Date2.txt",header=TRUE)
MyDate1
Date1 = MyDate1$Date
class(Date1)
mode(Date1)
Date1
Date1 = as.Date(Date1, "%m/%d/%y")
class(Date1)
mode(Date1)
Date1
MyDate2
Date2 = MyDate2$EnDate
class(Date2)
mode(Date2)
Date2
Date2 = strptime(Date2 + 19e6L, "%Y%m%d&quo...
2006 May 21
1
POSIX, time zone and Windows
...<-strptime(mydate, "%y/%m/%d/%H:%M:%S")
mydate
[1] "2006-05-16 11:30:00"
as.POSIXct(mydate)
[1] "2006-05-16 11:30:00 Paris, Madrid"
Which is obviously not what I wish regarding the specification Paris,
Madrid...
I have tried to pass something to the argument tz
mydate2<-strptime(mydate, "%y/%m/%d/%H:%M:%S",tz="GMT") or
mydate2<-strptime(mydate, "%y/%m/%d/%H:%M:%S",tz="GMT+08")
I get this:
mydate2
[1] NA
Is there a way to specify the time zone on which I was working (actually
GTM + 8:00)? I have read in R-help that...