smoff <simon.frey <at> boku.ac.at> writes: > 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.
[snip] > 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? See the "colClasses" argument of ?read.table ... (added a little bit of text to make gmane happy) ______________________________________________ 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.