Thank you, I see this was due to me using %y instead of %Y, See ?strptime -----Original Message----- From: arun [mailto:smartpink...@yahoo.com] Sent: 17 April 2013 12:31 To: Pancho Mulongeni Cc: R help Subject: Re: [R] Problem with DateVisit-gives wrong year?
HI, test.date<- rep(c("14/05/2012","01/10/2012","28/09/2012"),each=6) as.Date(test.date,"%d/%m/%Y") # [1] "2012-05-14" "2012-05-14" "2012-05-14" "2012-05-14" "2012-05-14" #[6] "2012-05-14" "2012-10-01" "2012-10-01" "2012-10-01" "2012-10-01" #[11] "2012-10-01" "2012-10-01" "2012-09-28" "2012-09-28" "2012-09-28" #[16] "2012-09-28" "2012-09-28" "2012-09-28" test.date1<- factor(test.date) as.Date(test.date1,"%d/%m/%Y") # [1] "2012-05-14" "2012-05-14" "2012-05-14" "2012-05-14" "2012-05-14" #[6] "2012-05-14" "2012-10-01" "2012-10-01" "2012-10-01" "2012-10-01" #[11] "2012-10-01" "2012-10-01" "2012-09-28" "2012-09-28" "2012-09-28" #[16] "2012-09-28" "2012-09-28" "2012-09-28" A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: Pancho Mulongeni <p.mulong...@namibia.pharmaccess.org> To: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 7:18 AM Subject: [R] Problem with DateVisit-gives wrong year? Hi I have the following factor of dates that I want to converted to Date class so I can extract the month > test.date [1] 14/05/2012 14/05/2012 14/05/2012 14/05/2012 14/05/2012 14/05/2012 [7] 14/05/2012 14/05/2012 14/05/2012 14/05/2012 201 Levels: 01/10/2012 01/11/2012 01/12/2012 02/07/2012 ... 28/09/2012 I use code below ntest.date<-as.Date(test.date,'%d/%m/%y') but the output has the wrong year, and the reverse order ntest.date [1] "2020-05-14" "2020-05-14" "2020-05-14" "2020-05-14" "2020-05-14" [6] "2020-05-14" "2020-05-14" "2020-05-14" "2020-05-14" "2020-05-14" What am I doing wrong? I dare not say the word 'bug' Thanks Pancho Mulongeni Research Assistant PharmAccess Foundation 1 Fouché Street Windhoek West Windhoek Namibia Tel: +264 61 419 000 Fax: +264 61 419 001/2 Mob: +264 81 4456 286 ______________________________________________ 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.