Message-ID: <x24qm8r84e.fsf@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 2004-09-08T19:19:55Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: A couple of issues with colClasses/setAs
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0409081744290.24881-100000@gannet.stats>
Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> > etc? Or perhaps it is better with a catchall "Date-fmt", i.e., e.g.,
> > "Date-%Y%m%d"? That'd be fairly easy to code:
> >
> > else if (length(grep("^Date-",colClasses[i])))
> > as.Date(data[[i]], sub("^Date-(.*)$","\\1", colClasses[i]))
> >
> > although perhaps not so easy to document concisely.
>
> Is it really so hard to convert such columns from character afterwards?
Couldn't that be said for all of the classes?
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