On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 22:38 -0500, Farrel Buchinsky wrote: > Does anyone know of a resource for learning the basics of how to manage and > manipulate dates and times in R? I have been reading "Introductory > Statistics with R" by Peter Dalgaard which is fantastic. But alas, I could > find no reference to date and time. I have looked at the reference manual > but it is particularly unapproachable. So rather than dense technical talk I > would rather see a dataset, several arguments and commentary of what is > happening. The alternative to is to make Excel or Microsoft Access handle > all the date and time work (I have had about 16 years experience with how to > calculate and handle date and time in those programs) and then use RODBC to > read it.
You might want to look at the following articles from R News: author = {Brian D. Ripley and Kurt Hornik}, title = {Date-Time Classes}, journal = {R News}, year = 2001, volume = 1, number = 2, pages = {8--11}, month = {June}, url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/doc/Rnews/} author = {Gabor Grothendieck and Thomas Petzoldt}, title = {R Help Desk: Date and Time Classes in {R}}, journal = {R News}, year = 2004, volume = 4, number = 1, pages = {29--32}, month = {June}, url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/doc/Rnews/} HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html