On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 stephen@anc.ed.ac.uk wrote:
Hi,
The help file for strptime has the following code which doesn't work
for me:
## read in date info in format `ddmmmyyyy'
x <- c("1jan1960", "2jan1960", "31mar1960", "30jul1960")
z <- strptime(x, "%d%b%Y")
z
[1] "NA" "NA" "NA" "NA" Do these work for other people?
Yes, on several platforms. It will be a problem with your OS's strptime code. It must be, I think, as the alternative we supply works.
whereas it works fine if I use a separator (/) in the date@
strptime("9/Feb/1960", "%d/%b/%Y")
[1] "1960-02-09"
strptime("9Feb1960", "%d%b%Y")
[1] "NA"
We really do not put out new features without testing them!
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