On 17/01/2012 12:14 PM, Jake Beaulieu wrote:
R offers a bewildering array of options when it comes to representing dates and times (e.g, as.Date, chron, strptime, zoo, etc). Can anybody recommend a document that compares the relative merit of each method? I'm not looking for help with any one method, but rather a guide that describes which method is best for a particular data analysis/plotting goal.
You could try /R Help Desk: Date and Time Classes in R / by Gabor Grothendieck and Thomas Petzoldt in R News 4(1) <http://CRAN.R-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2004-1.pdf>, 29-32. Here's the link:
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