On 16 Sep 2016, at 15:23 , PIKAL Petr <petr.pi...@precheza.cz> wrote:
> Hi Peter
>
> The devil is in detail
>
> Data from OP had different format and was transferred to Date object by
> as.Date, which results in incorrect values (and NA if not transferred)
> df <- data.frame(Date =
> c("2013/05/25","2013/05/28","2013/05/31","2013/06/01","2013/06/02",
> "2013/06/05","2013/06/07"), Quantity = c(9,1,15,4,5,17,18))
> df$Date<-as.Date(df$Date)
> cbind(df, sqldf("select strftime( '%m', Date) from df"))
>
To be fair, he actually used as.Date(...., "%Y/%m/%d"), so the values were in
fact correct. The issue lay in the conversion to integer.
I can't figure out how those integers are interpreted, though:
> df <- data.frame(date=c(0,1000,2000))
> cbind(df, sqldf("select strftime( '%Y-%m-%d', date) from df"))
date strftime( '%Y-%m-%d', date)
1 0 -471-11-24
2 1000 -471-08-20
3 2000 -470-05-16
so the Epoch is nothing sensible and negative years are more than a thousand
days??
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