[R-SIG-Finance] About timeDate Problem

[Guy Green]

I may be missing something on this, but it seems timeDate is quite difficult
to work with.  For example, the following code shows some dates working, and
others not, but it is hard to see what the difference is except that
timeDate has difficulty dealing with single digit dates:

timeDate("6/7/2010", format = "%m/%d/%Y")  #works fine
timeDate("5/28/2010", format = "%m/%d/%Y")  #works fine
timeDate(c("6/7/2010", "5/28/2010"), format = "%m/%d/%Y")  #doesn't work.  I
have no idea why the dates work on their own (above), but not together.
timeDate(c("06/07/2010", "05/28/2010"), format = "%m/%d/%Y")  #works - so
the single/double issue seems to be the cause of the problem
timeDate(c("06-07-2010", "05-28-2010"), format = "%m-%d-%Y")  #works fine

Could you just use as.Date?  Does this get you what you wanted?

date <- read.csv("D:/date.csv",header=T,sep=",")
date2 = as.Date(date$Date, format = "%m/%d/%Y")
date2

Guy
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