[R] Date format issue.

[jim holtman]

You get the NA since it is indeterminate as to the date; paste on a 1
for the day"

> v<-c("Mar-80")
> as.Date(paste(v, '1'),format="%b-%y %d")
[1] "1980-03-01"


On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Ashim Kapoor <ashimkapoor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R helpers,
>
> I have 2 questions : -
>
> 1. My excel sheet has a column with dates like 01/03/1980 which is formatted
> as 03/80 when I read this into R it reads as Mar-80. How can I read it in
> the source format ?
>
> 2.
>
>> v<-c("Mar-80")
>> as.Date(v,format="%b-%y")
> [1] NA
>>
>
> Could someone please tell me where I am wrong in this date format conversion
> ?
>
> Thank you all very much.
>
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Jim Holtman
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