Hi My dataframe is imported from SAS as a csv file(which cant be any different).
There is a vector "dato" that is dates like this: 03/12/2004 and that is *day/month/year*. > vms[1:20,] CKRDYRNR RACE_ID datofra minkaelvedato CHRNR cowno *dato* opstartdato muno timestamp closingtime transtype 1 8004500307 1203 29OCT2004 03DEC2004 19365 307 03/12/2004 30APR2004 1 03DEC2004:18:54:48.0 03DEC2004:19:01:37.0 1 2 8004500307 1203 29OCT2004 03DEC2004 19365 307 04/12/2004 30APR2004 1 04DEC2004:19:10:29.0 04DEC2004:19:15:41.0 1 3 8004500307 1203 29OCT2004 03DEC2004 19365 307 05/12/2004 30APR2004 1 05DEC2004:18:37:37.0 05DEC2004:18:51:23.0 1 4 8004500307 1203 29OCT2004 03DEC2004 19365 307 06/12/2004 30APR2004 1 06DEC2004:10:18:16.0 06DEC2004:10:24:50.0 1 5 8004500307 1203 29OCT2004 03DEC2004 19365 307 07/12/2004 30APR2004 2 07DEC2004:19:51:52.0 07DEC2004:19:56:51.0 1 6 8004500307 1203 29OCT2004 03DEC2004 19365 307 08/12/2004 30APR2004 1 08DEC2004:23:44:51.0 08DEC2004:23:55:21.0 1 7 8004500307 1203 29OCT2004 03DEC2004 19365 307 09/12/2004 30APR2004 1 09DEC2004:22:01:46.0 09DEC2004:22:07:50.0 1 8 8004500307 1203 29OCT2004 03DEC2004 19365 307 10/12/2004 30APR2004 2 10DEC2004:12:47:56.0 10DEC2004:12:59:24.0 1 9 8004500307 1203 29OCT2004 03DEC2004 19365 307 11/12/2004 30APR2004 1 11DEC2004:23:16:38.0 11DEC2004:23:26:50.0 1 10 8004500307 1203 29OCT2004 03DEC2004 19365 307 12/12/2004 30APR2004 2 12DEC2004:18:30:28.0 12DEC2004:18:36:42.0 1 11 8004500307 1203 29OCT2004 03DEC2004 19365 307 13/12/2004 30APR2004 1 13DEC2004:23:00:28.0 13DEC2004:23:06:25.0 1 12 8004500307 1203 29OCT2004 03DEC2004 19365 307 14/12/2004 30APR2004 1 14DEC2004:13:00:37.0 14DEC2004:13:05:29.0 1 13 8004500307 1203 29OCT2004 03DEC2004 19365 307 15/12/2004 30APR2004 2 15DEC2004:20:01:36.0 15DEC2004:20:06:17.0 1 14 8004500307 1203 29OCT2004 03DEC2004 19365 307 16/12/2004 30APR2004 2 16DEC2004:14:53:20.0 16DEC2004:14:59:49.0 1 15 8004500307 1203 29OCT2004 03DEC2004 19365 307 17/12/2004 30APR2004 1 17DEC2004:15:31:20.0 17DEC2004:15:38:17.0 1 16 8004500307 1203 29OCT2004 03DEC2004 19365 307 18/12/2004 30APR2004 1 18DEC2004:20:19:07.0 18DEC2004:20:25:05.0 1 17 8004500307 1203 29OCT2004 03DEC2004 19365 307 19/12/2004 30APR2004 1 19DEC2004:18:33:58.0 19DEC2004:18:41:11.0 1 18 8004500307 1203 29OCT2004 03DEC2004 19365 307 20/12/2004 30APR2004 1 20DEC2004:13:12:09.0 20DEC2004:13:18:16.0 1 19 8004500307 1203 29OCT2004 03DEC2004 19365 307 21/12/2004 30APR2004 1 21DEC2004:15:05:20.0 21DEC2004:15:13:17.0 1 20 8004500307 1203 29OCT2004 03DEC2004 19365 307 22/12/2004 30APR2004 1 22DEC2004:14:36:19.0 22DEC2004:14:44:28.0 1 It is read as a factor by R and I cant find a way to translate them to a date class because the functions i can find and have used before on other data is mdy. Can anyone help me with this? Much thanks Rina [[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.