[R] Date Format

[Don MacQueen]

If I understand your question correctly, then my suggestion is to try
   table( format(datetest), other.variable)
instead of
   table(datetest, other.variable)

-Don

At 4:23 PM +0000 7/11/06, pierre clauss wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>I need your precious help for, I think, a simple request, but I do 
>not manage to solve this.
>
>When I use a "table" function with dates in the rows, the rows are 
>coerced to number after the table function.
>
>So I need to transform the row names into date format. But I do not manage.
>
>Therefore, for an example, I manage to write this :
>
>datetest<-"06/01/2001"
>datetest<-as.Date(datetest,"%d/%m/%Y")
>datetest<-as.numeric(datetest)
>
>to get 11328.
>
>But I do not obtain the inverse tranformation :
>
>datetest<-as.Date(datetest,"%d/%m/%Y")
>
>How do we get this please ?
>
>Thanks a lot for your solution.
>Pierre.
>
>
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Don MacQueen
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