[R] Dates in R

[Uwe Ligges]

On 07.05.2012 10:24, BrittD wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a file in which the dates are subscribed as for instance: 20101020.
> This is 20th Octobre 2010.

strptime("20101020", format="%Y%m%d")

seems to work for me...

UWe Ligges


> My problem is that R won't except this as a date, since there is no sign to
> seperate the Year, Month and Day
> and that it will only see it as an origin, which it is not.
> Does anyone know what to do about this.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Britt
>
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