[R] Convert number to Date

[Rolf Turner]

On 26/03/2010, at 9:33 AM, anna wrote:

> 
> Hello, I have a date value in excel: 1/4/2010 which in number format gives me
> 40182. When I read this with read.xls from R I get same 40182 so what I do
> is that I use the as.Date() function but here is what the as.Date() function
> returns me:
>> as.Date(40182)
> [1] "2080-01-06"
> Why don't I get the same thing as in excel?

Because excel is a load of junk.

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner
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