2010/7/30 Dimitri Liakhovitski <dimitri.liakhovit...@gmail.com>: > I've wasted a lot of time trying to read in dates from Excel. Even > importing .csv files has not guarantees and often produces garbage > instead of dates. > What I found works best is saving the Excel data base as a > tab-delimited file .txt (after having formatted the dates in the > format you need, e.g., mm/dd/yyyy). And then you can read it > (including dates) into R no problems.
If you are on windows and (can) use .xls files, my xlsReadWrite package should work well with dates. Cheers, Hans-Peter ______________________________________________ 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.
