[R] as.Date() clarification

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dalgaard <P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk>
>>>>>     on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:07:41 +0200 writes:

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    PD> and the help page has the explanation.

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    PD> [By the way, there used to be a way to see the current help pages on the
    PD> web, but I can't remember how. 

http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/   
    (I think one of the oldest still working links in the R-project)

where, for  as.Date , as in our question, you may end up here:

http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/base/html/format.Date.html

Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich (i.e. provider of the above)


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