[R] as.date - german date format

[John Kane]

"Functions to convert between character
representations and objects of class "Date"
representing calendar dates."

 $  xx  :Factor w/ 66 levels

try as.character(xx)


--- Konga <ericwill75 at yahoo.de> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a data.frame with the following variable:
> $  xx  :Factor w/ 66 levels
> "01.02.2006","01.03.2006",..: 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
> 
> now I´d like use "as.date" on it - if I comprehend
> the instructions on
>
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/base/html/format.Date.html
> it should work like this:
> 
> as.date(xx, "%d.%m.%Y") - but it doesn´t...
> 
> the survival Package ist loaded - is there a problem
> with the german format?
> Or did I understand something wrong?
> 
> Much better than tranforming the format from to data
> would be to import it
> in the right format.
> Is there a parameter for read.csv to get it as a
> date from the beginning?
> 
> 
> 
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