On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, John Carew wrote: > Hello, > I have a data set with dates stored as a factor with levels coded as, for > example "01/03/1996" > > I tried the following: > > onset <- strptime(as.character(cf$dx.dt), format="%m%d%Y") > If the dates look like "01/03/1996" then the format is "%m/%d/%Y" -thomas