[R] "%d/%m/%Y" can not be displayed in a .rd file

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 07/01/2010 2:09 PM, rusers.sh wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I found the date format (e.g."%d/%m/%Y") in the .rd file cannot be
> displayed after building the package. See below,
> ###.rd file####
> \examples{
> a<-"10/20/1999"
> DateConversion(a,DateIn="%m/%d/%Y",DateOut="%d/%m/%Y")
> }
> ####The result is ####
> Examples:
>      a<-"10-20-1999"
>      DateConversion(a,DateIn="
>
>   ??"%m/%d/%Y" seems cannot be recognized.
>     Is there some method to solve this and make it visible?
>   Thanks a lot.


The % character is a comment character in Rd files.  You need to escape it:

DateConversion(a,DateIn="\%m/\%d/\%Y",DateOut="\%d/\%m/\%Y")



Duncan Murdoch