See R News 4/1. The article on dates there discusses how they work and discusses Excel's dates as well.
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:58 PM, swertie<v_coudr...@voila.fr> wrote: > > Hello, I plot the abundance of a species in relation to the date. To have the > date as a continous variable I put it in the format "standard" in excel > (f.ex. 39939 means 06.05.2009). R uses 39939 on the x axis, but I would like > to have "06.05". I tried to use as.Date as suggested in some discussion but > I don't manage to use it, the returned date is not correct. Do you have any > clue? thank you > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Date-format-in-plot-tp25244066p25244066.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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
