[R] Importing dates from SPSS file

[dunner]

Hello all, kind regards,

I have imported a data.frame from SPSS using "foreign":read.spss but
unfortunately it is reading dates in a way neither R nor myself can
understand.

> book$DATE
 [1] 13502246400 13443321600 13477795200 13472956800 13501728000 13445395200
13501382400 13502851200 13444185600 13461465600 13457232000
[12] 13458096000 13432435200 13431484800 13495334400 13491964800 13451184000
13490755200 13505616000 13505616000 13502851200 13436928000
[23] 13497408000 13465094400 13484707200 13447555200 13438483200 13464489600
13494816000 13432435200 13455676800 13463884800 13455417600
[34] 13478400000 13504665600 13490150400 13504060800 13471401600 13492915200
13465958400 13445136000

I have looked around the documentation but can find nothing similar there or
in Spector's chapter on Dates

How do I coerce these to %d%m%Y form?

Thank you for your time and patience

Ross Dunne
ross.dunne at tcd.ie


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