Re: [R] Addition of numeric data to dates

2008-03-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Henrique Dallazuanna wrote: > If I understand: > > as.Date("2008-03-14") + 5*365 What about leap years? That is 2013-03-13. > x <- as.Date("2008-03-14") > xx <- as.POSIXlt(x) > xx$year <- xx$year+5 > as.Date(xx) [1] "2013-03-14" is I think what is being asked for. > On 14

Re: [R] Addition of numeric data to dates

2008-03-14 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
If I understand: as.Date("2008-03-14") + 5*365 On 14/03/2008, Jillywadd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello! > > I currently have a table of data with a column of start dates and a column > with some numbers representing years. I need to add these numbers to the > dates to get an end date. T

[R] Addition of numeric data to dates

2008-03-14 Thread Jillywadd
Hello! I currently have a table of data with a column of start dates and a column with some numbers representing years. I need to add these numbers to the dates to get an end date. The two types of data are obviously incompatible and adddition of the two will not work. Does anyone know how I migh