On 4/18/05, Christoph Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
> I have a huge data-set with one column being of type date.
> Of course I can import the data using this column as "factor" and then
> convert it later to dates, using:
>
> sws.bezuege$FaktDat <- dates(as.character(sws.bezuege$FaktDat),
> format = c(dates = "d.m.y"))
>
> But the conversion requires a huge amount of memory (and time),
> therefore I would like to use colClasses = c("Date"). My question is:
> since I have format = c(dates = "d.m.y"), how can I pass this option to
> read.delim(..., colClasses = c("Date")) ?
>
Check out:
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/02/12003.html
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