this is day month year? look at chron or maybe the easiest is to use excel to change the format
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Dr Eberhard Lisse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not Format -> Cell in Excell? > > el > > on 9/9/08 1:03 PM Henrique Dallazuanna said the following: >> Try this: >> >> strptime(x, ifelse(nchar(x) == 8, '%d/%m/%y', '%d/%m/%Y')) >> >> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Megh Dal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have following kind of dataset (all are dates) in my Excel sheet. >>> >>> 09/08/08 >>> 09/05/08 >>> 09/04/08 >>> 09/02/08 >>> 09/01/08 >>> 29/08/2008 >>> 28/08/2008 >>> 27/08/2008 >>> 26/08/2008 >>> 25/08/2008 >>> 22/08/2008 >>> 21/08/2008 >>> 20/08/2008 >>> 18/08/2008 >>> 14/08/2008 >>> 13/08/2008 >>> 08/12/08 >>> 08/11/08 >>> 08/08/08 >>> 08/07/08 >>> >>> However I want to use R to compile those data to make all dates in same >>> format. Can anyone please tell me any automated way for doing that? > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Stephen Sefick Research Scientist Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis ______________________________________________ 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.
