> Kind of off the thread a bit, but when I do: > >> as.Date(40182) > > I ***do not*** get "2080-01-06". Instead I get an error: > > Error in as.Date.numeric(40182) : 'origin' must be supplied > > Am I the only user who gets picked on in this way, or does it > happen to others as well? The help on as.Date() clearly specifies > that "origin" must be supplied. So how come Anna got the result that > she did?
I also get that error. I believe there was a thread a few years back discussing the merits of including a default origin, but to my knowledge, it was never implemented, and there is no way to set a default (e.g., through options()). > sessionInfo() R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: <snip> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 -- Joshua Wiley Senior in Psychology University of California, Riverside http://www.joshuawiley.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.
