TY for the tip. The lower case is in fact the culprit.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Erik Iverson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 6:05 PM > To: arnaud Gaboury > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [R] as.date > > > > Where does the problem comes from?? Maybe from my sytem date ?? > > Simply from not reading the options carefully enough, from ?strptime, > > '%y' Year without century (00-99). If you use this on input, > which > century you get is system-specific. So don't! Most often > values 00 to 68 are prefixed by 20 and 69 to 99 by 19 - that > is the behaviour specified by the 2001 POSIX standard, but > it > does also say 'it is expected that in a future version of > IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 the default century inferred from a > 2-digit year will change'. > > '%Y' Year with century. > > > You want %Y, not %y. ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
