Message-ID: <971536df0602161018i172c8596xe1d5f6706e443b4f@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2006-02-16T18:18:11Z
From: Gabor Grothendieck
Subject: How to convert SPSS date data to dates?
In-Reply-To: <NGBBKJEMOMLJFCOIEGCECEHBJPAA.jonathan.williams@pharm.ox.ac.uk>
spss.get in package Hmisc can handle SPSS dates automatically.
This and additional discussion on SPSS dates is available
in the Help Desk article in R News 4/1.
On 2/16/06, Jonathan Williams
<jonathan.williams at pharmacology.oxford.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear R Helpers,
>
> I have imported an SPSS file that contains date data.
> The data appear in R in a numeric format, as follows:
>
> 10485849600 10477641600 10561104000 10562745600 etc.
>
> I'd be extremely grateful if someone could tell me
> how to make these numbers into comprehensible dates!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan Williams
>
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