On Tue, 26-Jun-2012 at 11:57PM -0500, Erin Hodgess wrote: |> Hello again: |> |> Here is a solution to the dates without leading zeros: |> |> pou1 <- function(x) { |> #Note: x is a data frame |> #Assume that Column 1 has the date |> #Column 2 has station |> #Column 3 has min |> #Column 4 has max |> library(stringr) |> w <- character(length=nrow(x)) |> z <- str_split(x[,1],"/") |> for(i in 1:nrow(x)) { |> u <- str_pad(z[[i]][1:3],width=2,pad="0") |> w[i] <- paste(u,sep="",collapse="/") |> |> } |> a <- as.Date(w,"%m/%d/%Y") |> |> This is not particularly elegant, but it does the trick.
It's also solving a problem which doesn't arise with any of my installations. I'm curious to know what it is about your data that produces such a difference. Curious. |> |> |> Thanks, |> Erin |> |> |> -- |> Erin Hodgess |> Associate Professor |> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences |> University of Houston - Downtown |> mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.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. -- ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ___ Patrick Connolly {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas _( Y )_ Average minds discuss events (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people (_)-(_) ..... Eleanor Roosevelt ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ______________________________________________ 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.