One question I would have about your commands is that I would have thought that the second line of output ([2].....) would have started with at least [4] if you were reading multiple lines. This example seems to work fine: (now that I looked at your code you had $d instead of %d)
> x <- readLines(textConnection("2006/04/08 + 2005/1/2 + 2005/1/2 + 2005/1/2 + 2005/1/2 + 2005/1/2 + 2005/1/2 + 2005/1/2 + 2005/1/2 + 2007/12/21")) > x [1] "2006/04/08" "2005/1/2" "2005/1/2" "2005/1/2" "2005/1/2" "2005/1/2" "2005/1/2" [8] "2005/1/2" "2005/1/2" "2007/12/21" > as.Date(x, format="%Y/%m/%d") [1] "2006-04-08" "2005-01-02" "2005-01-02" "2005-01-02" "2005-01-02" "2005-01-02" "2005-01-02" [8] "2005-01-02" "2005-01-02" "2007-12-21" > On 2/16/07, Sérgio Nunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi again, > > I'm still trying to read my data but I'm having some difficulties > converting it to dates. > My data file has lines and in each line a single date exists in the > format >2007/02/16< (without the >,<). I've tried the following: > > > d <- readLines("file.dat") > > d > [1] "2006/08/09" "2004/02/11" "2004/06/09" ... > [2] ... > > > d2 <- as.Date(d, format="%Y/%m/$d") > > d2 > [1] NA NA NA ... > ... > > I'm surely doing something wrong. > Any advice would be welcomed. > > Thanks! > Sérgio Nunes > > On 2/15/07, Sérgio Nunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have several files with data in this format: > > > > 20070102 > > 20070102 > > 20070106 > > 20070201 > > ... > > > > The data is sorted and each line represents a date (YYYYMMDD). I would > > like to analyze this data using R. For instance, I would like to have > > a histogram by year, month or day. > > > > I've already made a simple Perl script that aggregates this data but I > > believe that R can be much more powerful and easy on this kind of > > work. > > > > Any suggestions on where to start? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Sérgio Nunes > > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem you are trying to solve? [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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