"Functions to convert between character representations and objects of class "Date" representing calendar dates."
$ xx :Factor w/ 66 levels try as.character(xx) --- Konga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a data.frame with the following variable: > $ xx :Factor w/ 66 levels > "01.02.2006","01.03.2006",..: 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 > > now I´d like use "as.date" on it - if I comprehend > the instructions on > http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/base/html/format.Date.html > it should work like this: > > as.date(xx, "%d.%m.%Y") - but it doesn´t... > > the survival Package ist loaded - is there a problem > with the german format? > Or did I understand something wrong? > > Much better than tranforming the format from to data > would be to import it > in the right format. > Is there a parameter for read.csv to get it as a > date from the beginning? > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/as.date---german-date-format-tp14712654p14712654.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.