[R] Date and Times a la Dalgaard

[Augusto.Sanabria at ga.gov.au]

To manipulate date/time I use packages "zoo" and
"survival".

Hope it helps,

Augusto

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Mathematical Modeller
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Geospatial & Earth Monitoring Division
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[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Farrel Buchinsky
Sent: Friday, 10 March 2006 2:39 PM
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Subject: [R] Date and Times a la Dalgaard


Does anyone know of a resource for learning the basics of how to manage and
manipulate dates and times in R? I have been reading "Introductory Statistics
with R" by Peter Dalgaard which is fantastic. But alas, I could find no
reference to date and time. I have looked at the reference manual but it is
particularly unapproachable. So rather than dense technical talk I would
rather see a dataset, several arguments and commentary of what is happening.
The alternative to is to make Excel or Microsoft Access handle all the date
and time work (I have had about 16 years experience with how to calculate and
handle date and time in those programs) and then use RODBC to read it.

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