There are lots of ways to deal with text. One possibility would be to check the length with nchar(), and if it is 5, use paste() to add a 0 to the beginning. Granted, not elegant.
Sarah On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:17 AM, ManInMoon <xmoon2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > I have text date colum with dates such at 290210 which I can parse with > %d%m%y but I also have date without leading zeo i.e. 10210 (Ist Feb 2010) > which cause any NA. > > How can I parse the second one? > -- -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ 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.
