[R] Number of Days

[Gabor Grothendieck]

ndays <- strptime(ex,format="%d%b%Y") - strptime(x,format="%d%b%Y")

If you need it in a calculation then as.numeric(ndays) might be
useful.

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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 23:33:33 -0600 
From: umeno <umeno at students.uiuc.edu>
To: R-Help  
Subject: [R] Number of Days 

 
 
Hi everyone,

I have been trying to compute numbers of days between two dates as follows:

> x <- c("1jan1960", "2jan1960", "31mar1960", "30jul1960")
> z <- format(x, "%d%b%Y")
> ex <- c("1jan1961", "15jan1960", "21mar1975", "10jul1981")
> ez <- format(ex, "%d%b%Y")
> ez-z
Error in ez - z : non-numeric argument to binary operator

As you may see, I am getting an error. Can anyone tell me how I can convert z 
and ez to numeric vectors, so that I can compute days between the 
corresponding dates in these vectors?

thank you
soyoko

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