Re: [R] as.Date with characters error

2013-07-30 Thread Liz Hare
From: Liz Hare To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 12:00 PM Subject: [R] as.Date with characters error Hello, I'm trying to convert dates in the format dd-mmm-yy using as.Date. I have two columns like this, and it works on one but not on the other. options(stringsAsF

Re: [R] as.Date with characters error

2013-07-30 Thread arun
Hi, Did you checked after removing "e" from "formate"? ortho$test.dat <- as.Date(ortho$xray.date, formate="%d-%b-%y")   A.K. - Original Message - From: Liz Hare To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 12:00 PM Subject: [R] as.Date w

[R] as.Date with characters error

2013-07-30 Thread Liz Hare
Hello, I'm trying to convert dates in the format dd-mmm-yy using as.Date. I have two columns like this, and it works on one but not on the other. > options(stringsAsFactors=FALSE) > ortho <- read.csv("test1.csv", header=TRUE, nrows=10) > ortho DogID BirthDate xray.date 1 11877 23-Aug-87 15-F