On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Gabor
Grothendieck<ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You want %Y, not %y.
>
> You might also want to look at the zoo package:
>
> library(zoo)
> z <- read.zoo("Date1.txt", header = TRUE, sep = ",", format = "%m/%d/%Y")
>
> or using chron:
>
> library(zoo)
> library(chron)
> z <- read.zoo("Date1.txt", header = TRUE, sep = ",", FUN = as.chron)
>
> There are three vignettes that come with zoo that have more info.
>Thanks Gabor. That solved the immediate problem. I appreciate the help. I'll take a look at zoo and chron. Any guidance on which package I should look at for getting what day of the week a certain date is? That's something I know I'll need. Cheers, Mark ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
