Message-ID: <20030421164607.34f50583.fharrell@virginia.edu>
Date: 2003-04-21T20:46:07Z
From: Frank E Harrell Jr
Subject: Dates in read.spss
I am using read.spss in the foreign package to read an SPSS save file. For date variables I get huge values such as 11489990400. Does anyone know how to convert these values to R POSIXct date objects? Thanks in advance -Frank
platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch i686
os linux-gnu
system i686, linux-gnu
status
major 1
minor 6.1
year 2002
month 11
day 01
language R
Package: foreign
Priority: recommended
Version: 0.5-10
Date: 2003-03-01
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Frank E Harrell Jr Prof. of Biostatistics & Statistics
Div. of Biostatistics & Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences
U. Virginia School of Medicine http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat