On 09/10/2014, 8:27 AM, PIKAL Petr wrote: > Hi > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- >> project.org] On Behalf Of Frederic Ntirenganya >> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 1:32 PM >> To: Jim Lemon >> Cc: r-help@r-project.org >> Subject: Re: [R] Changing date format >> >> This idea substract 1 for the all column which is not what i want. >> >> We know that the leap years have 366 days. I don't need to change >> anything on them >> >> the non-leap years have 365 days. This is what i want to change to be >> 366 days rather than 365 days. > > But this is a question of calendar reform not R. I must admit it would be a > tough job as leap day is needed to stay in tune with solar year. Your > suggestion would quickly result in out of sync with the Sun.
R Core is powerful, but I doubt if we could reform the calendar in this way. And I'd be against it in any case: I like to swim on my summer vacations, but if August slipped into the winter, the lakes around here would be frozen. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ 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.
