[R] Strange behaviour of strptime

[Joerg Maeder]

Hello,

can anybopdy explain me this?

> strptime('02 03',format= '%y %m' )
[1] "2002-02-28"
> strptime('02 03 04',format= '%y %m %d' )
[1] "2002-03-04"


shouldn't the first example return "2002-03-01"?

gruess

joerg
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