Re: [R] Dates in R

2006-12-28 Thread Brian Edward
Thanks for the help in addressing my query regarding the formatting of dates. All the suggestions were very helpful and I seem to be on track with solving the problem. Don, you are exactly right in your posting -- that is, the issue of the leading zero. And that is where my problem is. When I

[R] Dates in R

2006-12-27 Thread Brian Edward
Hello all, Can somebody point me to references or provide some code on dealing with this date issue. Basically, I have two vectors of values that represent dates. I want to convert these values into a date format and subtract the differences to show elapsed time in days. More specifically,

[R] Linux configuration (Ubuntu)

2006-09-19 Thread Brian Edward
Hello all, I have been a R user for about a year now, running on a MS Windows machine. I am in the process of making a complete switch to open-source. Linux is a new world to me. Ubuntu was my selection of the various distributions. Please pardon this very basic question (I was unable to locate