similar to: read.dta error after OSX change in time zone

Hello, I was hoping for advice regarding resolving the above error. I have a csv file that contains the following variable: $ Order.Made.Date : Factor w/ 299 levels "1-Apr-08","1-Aug-05",..: 278 285 91 286 159 132 108 261 282 147 ... I want to calculate a variable named F.length, which is today's date minus the values contained in the variable:

Full_Name: Michael Jacob Version: 1.4.1 OS: Windows 2000 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

Dear R users, I have a column with dates (character) in a data frame: 12-Jan-01 11-Jan-01 10-Jan-01 9-Jan-01 8-Jan-01 5-Jan-01 and I need to convert them to (Julian) dates so that I can sort the whole data frame by date. I thought it would be very 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

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()

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]

Hi All, I have an script in R which accepts user inputs for certain parameters, particularly dates, which the user inputs as character strings. eg: > date1 <- "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 <-

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

Full_Name: Arto Luoma Version: 1.3.1 OS: Windows 98 Submission from: (NULL) (153.1.53.119) Hi! The function get.hist.quote in the package tseries (Version 0.7-6) does not work in my computer. I found that it uses the function strptime which did not "understand" English month names in my Finnish locale (see bug report 811). I changed the regional settings to be English (UK) and

Dear list, I know this is really basic question but I just couldn't get anything to work. (I did a R site search with keywords "zoo" and "data frame" but the server timed out on me.) I have a time series which has the following (typical) format, DATE Open High Low Close Volume 01-JAN-2006 5.25 5.25

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.

Hi Folks! I'm struggling with dates - but enough about my personal life..... I have two daily time series files. 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:

Full_Name: Martin Lenze Version: 1.8.0 alpha (2003-09-18) OS: Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195], SP4 Submission from: (NULL) (82.82.76.131) Seems to be related to PR#1332... Hello, I get: > 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" >

Hi ALL: I am trying to use get.help.quote from library(tseries). I tried to run the example from help(get.hist.quote) but R complained. Here is the command I used and the response: ibm <- get.hist.quote(instrument = "ibm", start = "1998-01-01") trying URL

In attempting to build R using rpmbuild --rebuild R-2.1.0-0.fdr.2.fc3.src.rpm on a fairly up-to-date RedHat 9 system (that is, with patches installed through May 1 2004), it failed at the make check-all step. The problem was reproducible by going into the tests directory and make test-Segfault The last lines of the saved file no-segfault.Rout.fail are > > ## c.POSIXct : > >

In my 1021-version I get: > version _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch x86 os Win32 system x86, Win32 status major 1 minor 2.1 year 2001 month 01 day 15 language R > as.POSIXct( "1970/01/01" ) [1]

I wrote the date package long ago, and it has been useful. In my current task of reunifying the R (Tom Lumley) and Splus (me) code trees for survival, I'm removing the explicit dependence on 'date' objects from the expected survival routines so that they better integrate. Comparison of 'date' to 'Date' has raised a couple of questions. Clearly Date is more

Hi, i really positive surprised when i found the "get.hist.quote" but didn't now why i get with the examples from Online-Help errorMessages. Perhaps their is a problem with POSIX and my OS WIN2000/R1.5.1 ? Thanks for advance & regards,Christian $ ibm <- get.hist.quote(instrument = "ibm", start = "1998-01-01") trying URL `

Thanks in advance. I pass data sets between R and Stata and think dta files would be the best files for this. To do this I can use package foreign or package memisc. I mostly use foreign, although have used memisc and this problem mostly didn't happen, but created errors at other times. I have a csv data set (and created a test case) with with at least one column completely missing. This

Peter et al Thanks for the comments on dates. Some of the respondents missed the point, by showing ways that I could work around the problems, when my main argument is that one shouldn't have to work around problems. So I hereto present round 2 of the debate. 1 Postulates a. In my 35 year computing experience, I think that nothing frustrates me more than a computer program that

I'm trying to get R 1.9.0 running on AIX 5.1 with the standard AIX compilers (xlc, xlf) and it is failing 2 of the tests, test-Reg in reg-tests-1.R like this: bash-2.05b$ tail -30 reg-tests-1.Rout.fail [,1] [,2] [1,] 1 3 [2,] 2 4 [3,] 1 3 [4,] 2 4 > stopifnot(typeof(res) == "list") > ## were not implemented in 1.8.1 > > > ## Date objects with