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...write NA for shorter entries. How do I solve this problem? Is there a way to tell R not to delete the first character even if it is a zero or to directly read the first column as date? Thank you, cheers, Simon -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Format-ddmmYYYY-in-date-tp3494921p3494921.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.