Hi, I am getting my results from the following:
*z$Date<-as.Date(as.character(z$Date),format="%d/%m/%y")* instead of: z$Date<-as.Date(as.character(z$Date,format="%d/%m/%y")) Thanks again. Regards Vikram On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>wrote: > Convert to character first or use the "as.is" option to read.csv. The > default is to try to convert the underlying integer form of factors to date, > which is not what you intend. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... > DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing > Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > Vikram Bahure <economics.vik...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Dear R users, >> >> I have an elementary query. >> >> I have a dataset which is taken from text file with the help of read.csv >> command but when I generate the data in R file it converts the Dates into >> factor.So for the above problem, I use as.Date to convert the Dates from >> factor form to date format using the following: z has Date as a column. >> >> *z<- read.csv("data", header = TRUE, sep = "\t") >> >> z$Date<- as.Date(z$Date, format = "%d/%m/%y/") >> >> *But during this operation I loose all my dates and I get NA's instead of >> >> it. >> >> It would be helpful to have your inputs. >> >> Regards >> Vikram >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the post >> ing >> guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.