>>>> "TB" == Ted Byers <r.ted.by...@gmail.com> >>>> on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:36:22 -0500
TB> What I have found so far includes: TB> TB> library(Rmetrics) TB> time1 = timeDate(charvec = Sys.Date(), format = %Y-%m-%d, TB> zone = , TB> FinCenter = ) TB> time2 = timeDate(2004-08-30, format = %Y-%m-%d, zone = , TB> FinCenter = TB> ) TB> difftimeDate(time1,time2,units = weeks) TB> TB> TB> Does timeDate use the format strings used by the UNIX date(1) TB> command? If TB> so, then can I safely assume timeDate will accept %Y-%U-%w, TB> and behave TB> correctly? Hi Ted, timeDate uses internally the function 'strptime' to convert the input charvec to the ISO time format. As pointed out in the the manual page of 'strptime', the formats are system-specific but should follow the ISO C / POSIX standard. Have a look at ?strptime. Hope this help, Yohan -- PhD student Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich www.ethz.ch ______________________________________________ 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.
