I am on Ubuntu Karmic.
2009/10/26 Peter Dalgaard <p.dalga...@biostat.ku.dk> > guillaume chaumet wrote: > >> Thank you for your quick response >> >> >> sessionInfo() >>> >> R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24) >> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu >> >> locale: >> >> LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=fr_FR.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=fr_FR.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=fr_FR.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=fr_FR.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_FR.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >> >> I need to change fr by en? >> >> > Probably, since your input is in English. > > However, it is still a bit puzzling. I have (on Fedora) > > > x <- c("1jan1960", "2jan1960", "31mar1960", "30jui1960") > > > strptime(x, "%d%b%Y") > [1] "1960-01-01" "1960-01-02" "1960-03-31" NA > > Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME","fr_FR.UTF-8") > [1] "fr_FR.UTF-8" > > > strptime(x, "%d%b%Y") > [1] "1960-01-01" "1960-01-02" "1960-03-31" "1960-07-30" > > x <- c("1jan1960", "2jan1960", "31mar1960", "30jul1960") > > strptime(x, "%d%b%Y") > [1] "1960-01-01" "1960-01-02" "1960-03-31" NA > > So there are understandable issues with July (and February, April, May, and > August), but I don't see any reason to get four NAs. However, you are at the > mercy of your OS's locale database (you're not saying which OS, just that it > is a linux variant). > > -- > O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Ă˜ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B > c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K > (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 > ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalga...@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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