See the help desk article in R News 4/1 for a discussion on how to choose. On 11/5/06, Joe W. Byers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
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