On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > > That is not a complete date! Which day of the week is it? > > > > > >>example1<-"200301" > >>strptime(paste(example1, "1", format="%Y%U %d") > > > > > > will work, and you need to do something like that to resolve the > > ambiguity. > > > > Doesn't seem to work: > > - 6th day of 5th week: > > > strptime("2003 05 06", format="%Y %U %d") > [1] "2003-01-06" > > Ah ha. Use '%w' for 'day of week':
Or %u. And %U %V %W all mean week of the year in different definitions. Hence `something like that' (and I meant %u not %d). > > strptime("2003 05 06", format="%Y %U %w") > [1] "2003-02-02" > > I dont have a calendar to hand to check that 2 Feb is the 6th day of > the 5th week.... It is on one definition. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help