Hello everybody, I'm quite new in using R so please do not kill me if I ask stupid questions.
My problem is that I have a table containing dates in the first column of 10 years. These dates have the format ddmmYYYY at least in the csv-file. After importing the file using read.table() R deletes the first character if it is a zero. So e.g. if it's 01012010 R displays it as 1012010. Now of course I cannot change the format of this column into date using as.date or strptime or at least I don't no how, because R wants to have all entires to be the same lenght. So it converts only entries like 10102000 to 10.10.2000 but write NA for shorter entries. How do I solve this problem? Is there a way to tell R not to delete the first character even if it is a zero or to directly read the first column as date? Thank you, cheers, Simon -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Format-ddmmYYYY-in-date-tp3494921p3494921.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
