If the file represents a time series then you might want to look at the zoo package. See read.zoo, in particular and ?strptime and R News 4/1 for the % codes and other date/time info. Also ?lag.zoo
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Heston Capital <hestoncapi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am new to R and am trying to import a text file that contains > date/time and various fields. I want to sort this matrix by date and > also perform calculations on the date field (difference between two > dates etc). > > The format of the string looks as follows: > > x<-c("25/2/2003 0:00:00") > > I tried: > > as.Date(x,format='%d/%m/%y') > [1] "2020-02-25" > > Obviously I am doing something wrong here. I would like to remove the > hh:mm:ss from the end of the string if possible. > > Thanks for your help, I have been searching for hours and not getting > anywhere. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.