Instead of making your initial value of MaxUpdated_row NULL,
make it a 0-long Date object. Then c() will work as you wish
(but not rbind). E.g.,
> MaxUpdated_row <- as.Date(character(0))
> MaxUpdated_row <- c(MaxUpdated_row, as.Date("2013-06-28", "%Y-%m-%d"))
> MaxUpdated_row <- c(MaxUpdated_row, as.Date("2013-07-06", "%Y-%m-%d"))
> str(MaxUpdated_row)
Date[1:2], format: "2013-06-28" "2013-07-06"
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
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> Of Jason Rupert
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 2:47 PM
> To: R-help@r-project.org
> Subject: [R] "2013-06-28" coverts to 15884?
>
> MaxUpdated_row<-NULL
> MaxUpdated_val<- "2013-06-28"
>
>
> rbind(MaxUpdated_row, as.Date(MaxUpdated_val, "%Y-%m-%d"))
> [,1]
> [1,] 15884
>
> c(MaxUpdated_row, as.Date(MaxUpdated_val, "%Y-%m-%d""))
> >[1] 15884
> c(MaxUpdated_row, MaxUpdated_val)
> >[1] 15884
>
> Evidently, I'm again missing something simple, as I would prefer to be able
> to see the
> actual date to be shown.
>
> I found a work around, but I don't like it, as I have to convert back to date
> later:
> c(MaxUpdated_row, as.character(MaxUpdated_val))
>
> Any alternatives suggestions are much appreciated.
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