Luca, I ran your code using SPSS 17.0 and R 2.8.1. I found that the correct date was returned in R using this code:
test.df$newdate <- as.Date(as.POSIXct(test.df$mydate , origin="1582-10-14")) Also note that SPSS 17.0 is case sensitive in storing variable names, so the R code in your post needs to be changed from "test.df$MYDATE" to "test.df$mydate" to match your use of lowercase in the SPSS syntax. Harold Luca Braglia wrote: > > Hello R-user > > bug seekers are needed! > In order to perform these simple tasks you have to use a copy of SPSS > and obviously R.... > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Is-this-a-documentation-bug--Spss-dates-import-tp22455442p22461929.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
