[R] Which date format to choose?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 17/01/2012 12:14 PM, Jake Beaulieu wrote:
> R offers a bewildering array of options when it comes to representing
> dates and times (e.g, as.Date, chron, strptime, zoo, etc).  Can anybody
> recommend a document that compares the relative merit of each method?  I'm
> not looking for help with any one method, but rather a guide that
> describes which method is best for a particular data analysis/plotting
> goal.

You could try /R Help Desk: Date and Time Classes in R / by Gabor 
Grothendieck and Thomas Petzoldt in R News 4(1) 
<http://CRAN.R-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2004-1.pdf>, 29-32.  Here's 
the link:
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2004-1.pdf.

Duncan Murdoch