-----Original Message----- From: Amy Mikhail [mailto:amy.mikhail at googlemail.com] Sent: 7. januar 2009 14:33 To: BXC (Bendix Carstensen) Subject: Re: [R-sig-Epi] Converting dates from the Persian calendar to Gregorian Hi Bendix, Thanks - had not heard of Emacs before although just looking at it briefly it seems to be more of a text editor than a database type program, also although it converts from gregorian to other calendars, I'm not sure if it converts in the opposite direction. I'll post this to R-devel and see if there are any takers. Best wishes, Amy
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:00 PM, BXC (Bendix Carstensen) <bxc at steno.dk> wrote:
I already sent this request off to inquire with Peter Dalgard and Martyn Plummer from the R-core team, and got this back from Peter: > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Dalgaard [mailto:P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk] > Sent: 7. januar 2009 13:43 > To: BXC (Bendix Carstensen) > Cc: pd at biostat.ku.dk; Martyn Plummer > Subject: Re: FW: [R-sig-Epi] Converting dates from the > Persian calendar to Gregorian > > Also notice that M-x calendar in Emacs does a lot of this stuff. > > > p o calendar-print-other-dates > p m calendar-print-mayan-date > p f calendar-print-french-date > p i calendar-print-islamic-date > p h calendar-print-hebrew-date > p a calendar-print-astro-day-number > p j calendar-print-julian-date > p c calendar-print-iso-date > p p calendar-print-persian-date > p e calendar-print-ethiopic-date > p k calendar-print-coptic-date > p C calendar-print-chinese-date > p d calendar-print-day-of-year > Yes it might be a good idea to pose this to the R-devel list as a facility that should be included in R --- presumably with the same facilities as in emacs. Best regards, Bendix > -----Original Message----- > From: Amy Mikhail [mailto:amy.mikhail at googlemail.com] > Sent: 7. januar 2009 13:45 > To: BXC (Bendix Carstensen) > Cc: r-sig-epi at stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R-sig-Epi] Converting dates from the Persian > calendar to Gregorian > > Hi Bendix, > > Many thanks - yes, I had already visited Homam's page. I > have posted a message there asking if there is some way to > link his code / function to my MS Access database, but having > this as a function in R would be better. > > Any takers, who know both C and R? Should I also post this > to the R devel list? > > Best wishes, > Amy > > > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:26 PM, BXC (Bendix Carstensen)
> <bxc at steno.dk> wrote:
> > > Hi Amy, > you probaly already have visited: > http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/JalaliCalendar.aspx > where the Iranian guy Homam Hosseini provides a > discussion of the conversion, and some C code to do it. > > I am a C ignorant, but surely someone in the > R-community would be able to take this code (and in > collaboration with Homam) provide a function that converts > Iranian / Jalali dataes to and from the Gregorian Date class?? > > Best regards > Bendix > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: r-sig-epi-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch > > [mailto:r-sig-epi-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On > Behalf Of Amy Mikhail > > Sent: 7. januar 2009 12:40 > > To: r-sig-epi at stat.math.ethz.ch > > Subject: [R-sig-Epi] Converting dates from the Persian > > calendar to Gregorian > > > > Dear Epi list, > > > > This is not a strictly epidemiological question, but an issue > > that anyone might face if presented with a dataset containing > > dates in a non-gregorian format. > > > > I am currently developing a database (in MS Access) for a > > public health study, the results of which I intend to analyse > > in R. I have a small problem, in that the date each patient > > visits the clinic will be entered into the database in the > > Persian / Jalali calendar format - e.g. today's > > date in the Persian calendar is 18.10.1387. For the > > analysis however I > > need these dates to be converted to Gregorian, so that I can > > have months on the x axis of plots, etc. > > > > Does anyone know of a function / some code already written > > that could do this conversion in R? It is much too complex > > for me to figure out (since the Persian new year starts on > > 21st March, and although there are also 12 months they have > > different lengths to gregorian months). I'm guessing it > > would require loops and such but this is beyond my current > > level of R knowledge. > > > > I have found some online tools that do the conversion of > > individual dates, but there seems to be nothing out there > > that would convert a whole dataset's worth of dates. > > > > Any suggestions much appreciated, > > With best wishes, > > Amy > > > > > > -- > > Amy Mikhail > > Program Manager, ACTc Afghanistan Malaria Project London > > School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine HPRO, Charahi-e-Shahid, > > Shar-e-Naw, Kabul, Afghanistan > > > > Email (Afg): amy.mikhail at googlemail.com > > Email (UK): Amy.Mikhail at lshtm.ac.uk > > Tel (Afg): +93 (0)706 126627 > > Tel (UK): +44 (0)781 4176107 > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-sig-Epi at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-epi > > > > > > > -- > Amy Mikhail > Program Manager, ACTc Afghanistan Malaria Project London > School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine HPRO, Charahi-e-Shahid, > Shar-e-Naw, Kabul, Afghanistan > > Email (Afg): amy.mikhail at googlemail.com > Email (UK): Amy.Mikhail at lshtm.ac.uk > Tel (Afg): +93 (0)706 126627 > Tel (UK): +44 (0)781 4176107 > > -- Amy Mikhail Program Manager, ACTc Afghanistan Malaria Project London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine HPRO, Charahi-e-Shahid, Shar-e-Naw, Kabul, Afghanistan Email (Afg): amy.mikhail at googlemail.com Email (UK): Amy.Mikhail at lshtm.ac.uk Tel (Afg): +93 (0)706 126627 Tel (UK): +44 (0)781 4176107