I have been working with R extensively for several months. I switched from SAS and Matlab to R. My question is
Can anyone explain the benefits and detractions of the 'Date' package verses the 'date' package and verses 'POSIX' dates. I have noticed several other packages use one or the other. Rmetrics seems to standardize on POSIX. I can only see differences in default formats, and the starting counting number be it 1 1 1900 or something else. I am trying to standardize code that I write for research and to provide to my students on one date schema. The documentation is very good on using a specific package, but I can not tell the which one provides the broadest coverage across R packages or is just the better one to use. I know all of you have more experience with some of these and I am just soliciting your opinions and comments. Thank you Joe ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
