[R] Write date class as number of days from 1970

[Uwe Ligges]

On 03.05.2013 15:59, Manta wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a dataset with one column being of class Date. When I write the
> output, I would like that column being written as number of days from
> 1970-01-01. I could not find anywhere a way to do it.


as.numeric(x)

where x is the Date object.

Uwe Ligges



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> Marco
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