%s is of course not documented on ?strftime: it is a glibc extension and
marked as such on my Linux man page.
But as.numeric(x) gives you the number of days, and
as.numeric(as.POSIXct(x)) gives you the number of seconds, equal to
86400*as.numeric(x).
[Why are you including empty commands at the
Hi everyone,
When using R on Linux I can do the following:
> x <- as.Date("01/04/2007", "%d/%m/%Y");
> x
[1] "2007-04-01"
> print(format(x, "%s"));
[1] "1175385600"
When using R in Windows XP though the format "%s" does nothing but return
a blank string. How can I convert a date to the number
