I am on Ubuntu Karmic.


2009/10/26 Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk>

> guillaume chaumet wrote:
>
>> Thank you for your quick response
>>
>>
>>  sessionInfo()
>>>
>> R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24)
>> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>>
>> locale:
>>
>> LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=fr_FR.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=fr_FR.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=fr_FR.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=fr_FR.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_FR.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> I need to change fr by en?
>>
>>
> Probably, since your input is in English.
>
> However, it is still a bit puzzling. I have (on Fedora)
>
> > x <- c("1jan1960", "2jan1960", "31mar1960", "30jui1960")
>
> > strptime(x, "%d%b%Y")
> [1] "1960-01-01" "1960-01-02" "1960-03-31" NA
> > Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME","fr_FR.UTF-8")
> [1] "fr_FR.UTF-8"
>
> > strptime(x, "%d%b%Y")
> [1] "1960-01-01" "1960-01-02" "1960-03-31" "1960-07-30"
> > x <- c("1jan1960", "2jan1960", "31mar1960", "30jul1960")
> > strptime(x, "%d%b%Y")
> [1] "1960-01-01" "1960-01-02" "1960-03-31" NA
>
> So there are understandable issues with July (and February, April, May, and
> August), but I don't see any reason to get four NAs. However, you are at the
> mercy of your OS's locale database (you're not saying which OS, just that it
> is a linux variant).
>
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