[R] Convert number to Date

[Joshua Wiley]

You are quite welcome.  After poking around a bit more, I can offer a
more detailed explanation on Excel.  It does treat 1 January 1900 as
the origin.  However, while R treats origin as 0, Excel treats it as
1.  This explains 1 of the two day change needed for R to get the same
results as Excel.  The second day is explained by the fact that Excel
treats the year 1900 as a leap year, although it is, in fact, not a
leap year.  To correct for this, the date specified as origin in R
must be a day earlier.



On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:58 PM, anna <lippelanna24 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Josh! yes definitely it makes sense as I got to retrieve a date, but a
> different one! thanks a lot for the explanation )
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