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...s the orginal data is in SAS format. 3 columns of this dataset are supposed to be dates, but read.xport doesn't recognise them as dates (all columns are read in as mode numeric). So I load up the date library and go ahead to convert the 3 columns into dates. So doing ... > library(date) > s05962$DOB_as.date(s05962$DOB) > s05962$DOB # to check if everything is ok, and it is...dates have been correctly converted... However, when I look at the first 10 rows of the whole dataframe, > s05962[1:10,] # The column DOB is is still in numeric mode... So I try again, but the following...