[Rd] problem with strptime example (PR#811)
Peter Dalgaard BSA
p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk
01 Oct 2001 16:17:30 +0200
al18853@uta.fi writes:
> Hello,
>
> strptime is still not working correctly in my computer
> (Windows 98 and R Version 1.3.1)
>
> From
>
> x <- c("1jan1960", "2jan1960", "31mar1960", "30jul1960")
> strptime(x, "%d%b%Y")
>
> I obtain
>
> [1] "NA" "NA" "NA" "NA"
>
> while
> x <- c("01011960", "02011960", "3131960", "3071960")
> strptime(x, "%d%m%Y")
>
> gives
> [1] "1960-01-01" "1960-01-02" "1960-03-31" "1960-07-30"
>
> So it seems that the problem is with %b.
This works fine for me on a similar setup. Does Finnish localisation
do strange things with month names??
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