[R] Sldf command returns negative value for date

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Sneha Bishnoi <sneha.bishnoi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All!
>
> I am trying to increment date column of data frame so as to merge it with
> another data frame using sqldf:
> my query is :
> merge<-sqldf("select m.* ,e.* from mdata as m left join event as e on
> date(m.Datest,'+1 day')=e.Start")
>
> The query returns null for all columns related to event table.
> When I investigated further with query :
> sqldf("select date(Datest,'+1 day')") from eventflight;")
>  gives me -ve valued dates like : -4671-02-15
>
> However this works:
> sqldf("select date(('2009-05-01'),'+1')")
>
> Dataframes are as follows:
> mdata :
> LOS Arrivals BookRange   Datest
>  1     1283       0-4            2009-05-01
>  1     1650       0-4            2009-05-08
>  1     1302       5-9            2009-05-15
>
> event:
>  Event.Name  Event.location          Start           End
>  Birthday        Texas (US)           2009-05-02    2009-05-03
>  Anni              Texas (US)          2009-05-09     2009-01-11
>
> What am I doing wrong?

This is a FAQ.   See #4 here: http://sqldf.googlecode.com .

The SQLite date function assumes its argument is a timestring but R
"Date" class variables are transferred to SQLite as days since
1970-01-01 so just add 1.

   sqldf("select * from mdata as m left join event on Datest+1 = Start")



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