I personally follow those recommendations. On 11/5/06, Joe Byers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gabor, > > Thank you very much. That is a wonderful article and will help very > much. Might I ask which date schema do you prefer? > > Thank you > Joe > > > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > 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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