[R] How to convert number (matlab) to date

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
<emammendes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am new to R and I need to convert some dates (numeric format by matlab) to actual dates in R.
>
> For instance,
>
> Matlab -> 730456 -> >> datestr(730456)
>
> ans =
>
> 02-Dec-1999
>

Set the origin to Matlab's origin like this.  Be sure you are using
the indicated version of zoo or later:

> library(zoo)
> packageVersion("zoo")
[1] ‘1.7.1’
> as.Date(730456, origin = "0000-00-00")
[1] "1999-12-02"


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