date format

you could use "as.Date()", i.e.,

ss <- "16/12/03"
as.Date(ss, "%d/%m/%y")
julian(as.Date(ss, "%d/%m/%y"))


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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Biostatistical Centre
School of Public Health
Catholic University of Leuven

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "alessandro carletti" <alxmilton at yahoo.it>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 3:08 PM
Subject: [R] date format

Hi,
I'm trying to convert a vector containing dates in
character format ("dd/mm/yy"): mdy.date (from date
package) seems to be able to do that, but it returns
to me a  vector containing julian dates... but
negative!
for example:

16/12/03 is converted into -20470

it is because R recognizes year ../03 as 1903, instead
of 2003, but how can I do to solve this problem? (of
course, I could add "36525" to each data, but it's not
very elegant)

Thanks

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